Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:23:52 -0400, t2000k wrote:

One question--are the various BSDs different enough that a program
might not work on one but would on another?

There are kernel compatibility modules for running otherBSD binaries on
thisBSD. No idea how well that works.

From the GENERIC configuration file for OpenBSD:

option COMPAT_SVR4 # binary compatibility with SVR4
option COMPAT_IBCS2 # binary compatibility with SCO and ISC
option COMPAT_LINUX # binary compatibility with Linux
option COMPAT_FREEBSD # binary compatibility with FreeBSD
option COMPAT_BSDOS # binary compatibility with BSD/OS

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