On Sun, 04 May 2008 15:12:40 GMT Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, there's a reason, of course, why I (and apparently others on > this list, too) still run FreeBSD 4.11: it's their most stable > release ever made. Far as I'm concerned, everything went down-hill > after version 4 and up. Read their list. Currently Perl 5.8.8 won't > even compile out of box on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE! And that's just one > of many, many problems. So, I'll hang on to my dinosaur for a while, > if you don't mind. :)
I have not experienced that problem. Where did you get that bit of information from, if I might ask? I know that there was some mention of a problem one individual had with Perl; however, like so many software applications, there is always someone, somewhere, who cannot get a particular application to install/run. It is just the nature of the beast. > For clamav (and other stuff) I already had to resort to the old > > libpthread.so -> /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4 > > trick, but it STILL runs smoothly. > > Regardless of OS version, though, it's always a good policy of the > clamav makers to try and not break things too radically, or change > around unnecessarily. I, for one, would be thoroughly screwed without > clamav, as there's nothing, in the UNIX market at least, that comes > even come close to clamav. I can see making an effort to keep an application compatible with an older OS version; however, at some point the inherent problems encountered doing so out weight any possible benefit. In any case, I am glad it works for you. -- Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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