Problems with FreeBSD 6.0

Tony Maher anthony.maher at uts.edu.au
Thu Apr 13 00:57:50 UTC 2006


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 02:48:51AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:22:27PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:48:44PM +0000, gs_stoller at juno.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>	I tried out  FreeBSD 6.0  (sorry, I copied just part or
>>>> uname -a  and I got something like "LINUX  2.4.2 FreeBSD 6.0 -
>>>>Release #0: Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005  i686 i686 i386 GNU/LINUX")
>>>
>>>No you didn't, since no version of FreeBSD reports itself as LINUX
>>>from uname.
>>
>>Unless uname is a Linux binary.
> 
> 
> FreeBSD doesn't ship uname as a Linux binary either :-)
> 
> Kris
/compat/linux/bin/uname -a
Linux karma.internal 2.4.2 FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Apr  4 22:24:50 EST
2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


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