Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 16:00:28 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd Message-ID: <199511061500.QAA13791@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <20412.815613205@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 5, 95 03:13:25 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > > * another thing is the COMPAT_FREEBSD option (... and code) - i think > > it would be a good idea to have something similar for NetBSD > > (COMPAT_NETBSD) in FreeBSD - i think it should be relatively easy to > > Uh. Why? :-) > > I believe the big reason for them having COMPAT_FREEBSD to run our > packages, which is a perfectly reasonable thing. From the opposite > point of view, I can't think of *any* applications (save AFS, which > isn't even an app) that run only on NetBSD and aren't available in > FreeBSD versions. That may be true most of the time, but consider my situation. I have machines running both BSD/386 and FreeBSD, and the software is compatible enough that I normally don't need two copies of everything. It would be nice to retain the compatibility, and it shouldn't be too hard. That doesn't mean I want a COMPAT_NETBSD and a COMPAT_BSDOS--just that somehow people should arrange to stay as compatible as possible. Greg
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