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From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD
Date: 18 Sep 1995 01:16:51 GMT
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wingel@hog.rydnet.lysator.liu.se (Christer Weinigel) wrote:
>I really shoudn't get involved in this thread, but I'm waiting
>for the latest Linux kernel to compile (a pre 1.3.28 patch),
>and I'm bored. :-)
>
>[snip]
>>3) When I switched from a.out to ELF under Linux, it WASN'T as stable as
>>everyone had promised. A couple of programs, including 'xbench' and
>>simple utilities like "fromdos" and "todos" caused segmentation faults no
>>matter what I did!
>[snip]
>
>I just thought I'd mention this might be a problem with 'fromdos' and
>'todos', not ELF. a.out has a 'feature' which allows a.out-programs
>to access NULL pointers without causing segmentation faults, ELF is
>much more paranoid about things like this, so some bugs which have
>gone undetected with a.out executables are being fixed because of ELF.
>I might be totally off the mark this time though :-)
Hmmm, that sounds plausible. Or then again, the Linux C library itself might
be buggy in this way. I tried to recompile the latest libc under GCC 2.7.0
(since I heard 2.6.3 had buggy ELF support), but it was such a messy compile
(SO many warnings and a few errors) that the resulting library was ruined.
>BTW. Right now I'm running Linux, but I'm not religious about it.
>I'd like to try FreeBSD or NetBSD, but I still haven't been able to
>figure out if there is any support my hardware (specifically, the
>Trantor T128 SCSI-adapter). Is there a 'Hardware compatibility list'
>available for FreeBSD somewhere.
Try the FreeBSD web page: http://www.freebsd.org/. It looks like the 2.0.5
kernel supports the Trantor T130, so it might be compatible. Why don't you
just download and boot the FreeBSD boot disk and see if your SCSI adapter is
recognized:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp
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Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com
Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL
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