From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 10 22:34:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8CD106566C for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:34:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arch@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259058FC08 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S6Uda-0000R8-CG for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:19:42 +0100 Received: from cpe-188-129-114-216.dynamic.amis.hr ([188.129.114.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:19:42 +0100 Received: from ivoras by cpe-188-129-114-216.dynamic.amis.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:19:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:19:06 +0100 Lines: 13 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-188-129-114-216.dynamic.amis.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 Subject: Offtopic: Linus on binary compatibility X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:34:54 -0000 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495 Awww, how cute, the little OS is growing up :) Seriously, FreeBSD's ability to run binaries compiled on 3.x on 9.x is incredibly awesome! Now it's only a matter of time when Linus gets it that the kernel ABI should also fall under such rules, and in just a few short years we will have another usable / non-broken OS ;) [end tongue-in-cheek transmission]