> to understand the purpose of the binary compats, you really have to go
> way back in history. there was a time when the only way to run a
> grapical browser on openbsd was to use the netscape binary under BSDi
> emulation (I think it was BSDi, not 100% certain) on i386 or the solaris
> binary und
* Mihai Popescu [2014-04-21 17:21]:
> Is there a paper explaining the purpose of Linux compatibility in OpenBSD?
> I'm not from UNIX time and I'm curious when and why this feature was added.
it's the only binay compat left, we deleted all the others. it is
useful to some to run closed-source soft
It exists on freebsd, but I never used it. I remove
every bit of not necessary code from the kernel to
prove manhood, or whatever you call it. Compability
should enable you to run linux binaries. At the mo-
ment almost every known app works on openbsd or free
bsd. Personally, I do not care having l
previously on this list Mihai Popescu contributed:
> Is there a paper explaining the purpose of Linux compatibility in OpenBSD?
> I'm not from UNIX time and I'm curious when and why this feature was added.
>
If you want to run say Opera that cannot be recompiled then you need
it. Unfortunately t
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> > Is there a paper explaining the purpose of Linux compatibility in OpenBSD?
> > I'm not from UNIX time and I'm curious when and why this feature was added.
>
> It actually predates OpenBSD, being part of the original import when
> OpenBSD
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> Is there a paper explaining the purpose of Linux compatibility in OpenBSD?
> I'm not from UNIX time and I'm curious when and why this feature was added.
It actually predates OpenBSD, being part of the original import when
OpenBSD split from
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