OpenBSD Linux Compatability
James Hartley
jjhartley at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 20:58:13 CEST 2008
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:54 AM, James Hartley <jjhartley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Szilveszter Ciurdar
> <ciurdar at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> What is the difference between these two packages for 4.3? I'm using the
>> i386 architecture.
>>
>> redhat_base-8.0p9.tgz
>> fedora_base-4.0p3.tgz
>
> See the following:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/4.3_packages/i386/redhat_base-8.0p9.tgz-long.html
> http://www.openbsd.org/4.3_packages/i386/fedora_base-4.0p3.tgz-long.html
>
> fedora_base is newer, but some some applications may be more
> compatible with redhat_base. Most important, you should study Section
> 9.4 of the FAQ:
>
> http://openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#Interact
>
> ...along with the compat_linux(8) manpage.
Please ignore the directory listing posted at the bottom of my
previous response. I inadvertently hit "send" without removing it.
Fedora packages are available at the mirrors:
-r--r--r-- 1 20001 0 36759163 Mar 14 2008 fedora_base-4.0p3.tgz
-r--r--r-- 1 20001 0 998600 Mar 14 2008
fedora_motif-2.1.30p0.tgz
My bad.
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