From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Sep 20 5:15: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from radon.gryphonsoft.com (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8EC037B422 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 05:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by radon.gryphonsoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D81351950; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:11:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:11:09 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Michael Lucas Cc: Brett Taylor , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nice comments about FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000920071109.H35550@radon.gryphonsoft.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Michael Lucas , Brett Taylor , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000920073841.A4921@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000920073841.A4921@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 07:38:41AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 07:38:41AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > FreeBSD has supported ELF for quite some time. Perhaps someone who > uses this software, and is familiar with it, could contact them and > ask them to correct their entry? If someone with a clue can't, I'll > do it. Obviously, whoever wrote that commentary on FreeBSD hadn't done his/her research on it. We have supported ELF for over 2 years, counting 3.0-CURRENT. Hell, I remember running a 3.0-SNAP in July 1998... and it did some neat ELF tricks. One of my pet peeves has always been people who didn't bother to do their research and always assumed FreeBSD wasn't nearly as much of a moving target as Linux is. *mutter, growl* ;-( > They might have to recompile their code for a newer FreeBSD, but > that's it. IIRC, code for FreeBSD 2.x compiles on 4.x? It does? Heh.. didn't think there was that much backwards compatibility as far as compile support, but binary support, sure. :-) > (PS: ObAdvocacy: That's cool. We rock. Hard.) Yeah, we rock lots of things fierce. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB++++$ P+ L- E--- W+ N-- !o ?K w--- O- M+ V- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+++ D+ G++ e>++++ h! r- y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message