3 Questions

Hawke proudhawk19021@home.com
Sun, 03 Dec 2000 04:07:34 +0000


Please make me a copy. I'll install on a secondary box
and check it out.

"J.L.Francois" wrote:
> 
> >From the OpenBSD INSTALL.i386:
> 
> To integrate more smoothly in other environments, OpenBSD 2.8 has
> significantly enhanced the binary emulation subsystem (which includes
> iBCS2, Linux, OSF/1, SunOS, SVR4, Solaris, and Ultrix compatibility)
> and several kernel subsystems have been generalized to support this
> more readily.  The binary emulation strategy is aimed at making the
> emulation as accurate as possible so that it is transparent to the
> user.
> 
> Many new user programs have been added in OpenBSD 2.8, as well,
> bringing it closer to our goal of supplying a complete and modern
> UN*X-like environment.  Tools like perl and ksh are standard, as are
> numerous other useful tools.
> 
> ==================
> 
> >From my perspective it looks like more functionality has been added in the new
> release.
> I still like 2.7, never had any problems with it except for the Linux emulation
> so thats why I am looking forward to installing 2.8.
> 
> Don't know if linuxconf would be a good idea since the filesystem standard
> is not quite the same.
> 
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