[TUHS] Re: Fwd: [simh] Announcing the Open SIMH project

[Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 10:57:15AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 9:45 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 10:38:57AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 9:03 AM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Interesting crossover from Linux to Linux Distros... Debian's my
> > > > personal fave (in the form of Mint, MX, or even Ubuntu), mostly cuz apt
> > > > seems to just work (for me, ymmv) and rpm sucks :). However, all of
> > > > these run on the same kernel and generally provide the same userland
> > > > (core-utils, etc).
> > >
> > >
> > > But not the same binaries. I've run into a lot of issues trying to run a
> > > binary for Debian on red hat or vice Vera due to shared libraries not
> > being
> > > completely compatible... kinda makes the whole system call argument moot
> > > since there is always significant version skew...
> >
> > Yep, shared libraries can screw you but that's true anywhere.
> >
> 
> Kinda my point: you brag of a misleading compatibility and then attack
> others that decide to slice things up differently and don't have that,
> these days useless, talking point.
> 
> Warner

OK, Warner knower of all things, I'm sure you are right.  It's not like
I've done the things I've talked about, I'm actually an AI bot programmed
to annoy you.