Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:18:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname Message-ID: <19981109121815.A6400@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199811091756.JAA10389@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>; from "Steve Kargl" on Mon Nov 9 09:56:33 GMT 1998 References: <199811091735.MAA23943@lakes.dignus.com> <199811091756.JAA10389@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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In the last episode (Nov 09), Steve Kargl said: > According to Thomas David Rivers: > > We've been here before. The consensus - after considerable debate > > - was to not make such a change. > > It was only a pro-active suggestion. I was unaware of previous debate. > > > The problem is that several automated processes - particularly WEB > > related - use uname to determine what kind of machines they are > > running on. If we return "Linux" - then we inflate the linux > > numbers at the cost of our own. > > It's better to infate the linux numbers, than to cut-off one's only > means to run certain software. For example, there are no open source > Fortran 90 compilers. You must purchase a commerical F90 compiler > and run it under linux emulation. On the other hand, there are no good open source COBOL compilers. We run Microfocus COBOL under SCO emulation. I vote we change FreeBSD's uname to return "SCO_SV". Wait. I'm also running the BSD/OS Quake server. I vote we change FreeBSD's uname to return "BSD/OS". Wait. See a problem here? :) > Been there. PGI has no intention at this time to support FreeBSD > because they do not have sufficient tech. support for FreeBSD. ditto MicroFocus. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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