previously on this list Mihai Popescu contributed: > Is there a paper explaining the purpose of Linux compatibility in OpenBSD? > I'm not from UNIX time and I'm curious when and why this feature was added. >
If you want to run say Opera that cannot be recompiled then you need it. Unfortunately the one or two apps I may wish to use it for such as segger Jlink require drivers/udev that I suspect could not be made to work, but hey you can't have everything. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick) _______________________________________________________________________
