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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD...
Date: 16 Dec 1995 23:43:35 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <4avlj7$s8o@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4ao0f8$1qc@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <MICHAELV.95Dec15230040@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <4atudi$6rk@news.nynexst.com>
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hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu (H.J. Lu) wrote:
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] In article <MICHAELV.95Dec15230040@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
] |>
] |> Both NetBSD and FreeBSD run Linux binaries.
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] I guess NetBSD and FreeBSD can run both ELF and a.out Linux binaries.
Most Linux commercial software is still ZMAGIC or QMAGIC a.out.
The NetBSD ABI code (which is now shared between NetBSD and
FreeBSD) can run ELF binaries, but until there are some
commercial binaries that depend on ELF, the changes from
NetBSD to support them will probably not be rolled into the
main line source base.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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