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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 8 Apr 1996 22:12:33 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4kc30h$2i0@times.tfs.com> References: <4issad$h1o@nadine.teleport.com> <31657509.5E45C160@gnu.ai.mit.edu> <4k4cfa$ava@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3169406A.61F8D18D@gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <3169406A.61F8D18D@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: >> moment, I dont think there's a compelling reason to go to ELF. It's probably >> not going to be compelling for some time. [...] > >Does that mean FreeBSD doesn't need those cool features from ELF? >Another reason for me to avoid FreeBSD :-(. > No, you can do thise things under FreeBSD by simpliy usinf the ELF loaders and tools that are supported under FreeBSD. it simply says that we will not be changing our default format until we are 1/ sure it buys us something in the NORMAL case 2/ are happy that we have the bugs out of it. until then any individual developer is welcome to use ELF format to compile and link and run his application.. If you need it it's available