On 06/08/2014 05:07 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 06/07/2014 09:49 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
ldd /usr/bin/mount Notice they are all out of lib64 now (for the /usr/bin/mount binary!)
I commend and applaud you for that, but I think you and openSuse have it backwards.
----- I don't have it backwards anymore than you do. I am just using the current paradigm.
I 'agree' with you on this issue -- even MS didn't do this -- they kept /windows/system32 reserved for native programs and 32-bit get redirects in the file system and registry. Same holds for 'program files' (native).
Can you really run the old SCO binaries on modern Linux? http://www.linux.org/threads/types-of-executables.4792/
--- Now you really miss the point. It's not about binary compat -- but source level compat -- being able to do a 'configure/Make' and have it gen a new working "whatever". If you change the paths, you have to change the sources of all the programs.
No I haven't missed the point. If you had followed the URLs I supplied you'd have read about not only Windows being backwards compatible with MS-DOS (and with errors: that one about SimCity memory allocation was a beaut!) but you'd also have read about the 4rd party applications developed for SCO that are only available as binaries - the developing firm no longer exists but the application is critical for some people. So of course Linux has bloat to deal with all those various binary formats that were described in another of the URLs I referenced. And yes the kernel has to now how to load those and set up the memory map, code and data segments, for them. -- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it. --Thomas Jefferson (letter to Archibald Stuart, Dec. 23, 1791, on the encroachments of state governments) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org