Subject: Switching to ELF
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <pappires@magma.del.ufrj.br>
List: current-users
Date: 02/05/1999 00:01:42
Hello, all.

Even though I don't understand enough of internals to know what makes
ELF better than a.out, recent UNIX-like OSes migration towards it
(besides development tools optimizations for ELF) makes me curious
about changing my NetBSD boxes to use it.

How safe, however, is it to switch a system which has already some
useful things installed, which would take a long time be be set up
again?  Is NetBSD's a.out to ELF transition less painful than
FreeBSD's and Linux's (especially this) were?

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	Pappires