[1830] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Netscape-3.01
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Jan 27 13:44:59 1999
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, gisele@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU,
netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 27 Jan 1999 13:44:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: "t. belton"'s message of Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:49:13 -0500 (EST)
linux1 is the original libc4 a.out code
linux2 is the old libc5 ELF code
linux3 is the new libc6/glibc ELF code
Generally machines that are i386_linux3 (such as the new RedHat-Athena
5.2) will be able to run the linux2 binaries.. But some binaries come
as glibc-only and wont run on the linux2 platform.
-derek
"t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, John Hawkinson wrote:
> > Solaris, IRIX, Linux, and NetBSD.
>
> Thanks, but that isn't quite what I meant. For example, saying "we support
> IRIX" ignores the fact that there are at least three versions of the SGI
> operating system and we are interested in two of those, 6.2 and 6.3.
> These both symlink in infoagents to the 'sgi53' directory.
>
> (Does it make sense to keep the sgi53 dir around? No. But that's where
> the code lived and no one wanted to cause upheaval by moving it all bodily
> into sgi62 and sgi63.)
>
> Anyway - I have a linux1 directory and a linux2. What's the difference? Is
> there another flavor of Linux I should know about? I have only one netbsd
> directory. Is there another flavor of that? These are the sorts of
> questions I was talking about.
>
>
>
>
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