John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code

Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by justin66 on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:46PM (#23228136)

> The bsds are actually less stable than Linux.

> Stable meaning changes, in this context, right? freeBSD changes ABI compatibility with every version.

Every major version, right? From becoming -Stable to ending its support lifecycle, I'd think a FreeBSD version and its ABIs are supported as long as many Linux distro LTS releases.

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Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by dijit on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:30PM (#23228611)

The major difference being that if you have a statically compiled binary from linux 2.4 it will work on linux 5.5

The only difference will be any shared libraries and potentially the libc. But if we're speaking from a pure technical perspective, the libc is not linux.

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Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by floatboth on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:40PM (#23230083)

Binaries from all the way back from FreeBSD 4.0 work on -CURRENT just fine.

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Re:John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD sourc... by jeffdavis on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:07AM (#23231187)

And I seem to remember that FreeBSD can support linux binaries, too.

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