Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 14:24:25 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), jbeukema@hk.super.net, ernie@tinny.eis.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Binary compatibility with NetBSD Message-ID: <199502262224.OAA09197@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Feb 1995 13:45:06 MST." <9502262045.AA04553@cs.weber.edu>
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>> > > To not maintain binary compatability *including* shared images would >> > > be folly. >> > >> > Bravo! I agree completely. We do not need one more fragmented, >> > incompatible flavour. >> >> Sigh. I applaud the sentiment, gentlemen. So. That simply leaves the >> simple question: Which one of YOU are going to do the work involved? > >If you think it's a difficult task, I can set aside next Saturday to >start to replace FreeBSD's libc with NetBSD's. > >I'll probably need a thud account and some disk space. > >I maintain that the incompatability is gratuitous. Those areas where >FreeBSD has code that NetBSD does not should be rolled back into NetBSD >anyway. I can see nothing but gains from doing this, so if you have the time Terry, I would encourage it. > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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