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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: silly question!?: FreeBSD vs NetBSD Date: 13 Nov 1993 18:57:21 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2c3amh$ekc@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CGDK7E.GD1@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CGDK7E.GD1@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>, Lars Koeller <uphya001@odie.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: >-- >I just install FreeBSD, and now I here about the shared libs in NetBSD, >which I' missing a lot. > > - Is there soon an upgrade in FreeBSD to shared libs? FreeBSD has (in alpha) shared libraries right now. Paul Kranenbury, although he does most of his work on the NetBSD box has made it very plain that his work is for both FreeBSD and NetBSD. When they have been fully tested, and a simple way to allow the users to upgrade to them w/out screwing up the system in the process has been setup, we will make them available to the public. You shouldn't have to jump through hoops just to run shared libraries, and you shouldn't have to debug them either. However, if you want to, put yourself on the FreeBSD mailing lists and I'm sure we could find something for you to do. :) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me