FreeBSD4 compatibility

Fri Dec 30 00:56:54 PST 2005

On 30 December 2005 02:10, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Matt, do you see problem maintaining FreeBSD4 compatibility in the future?
> : How hard would be to have FreeBSD 5+ compatibility?
> :
> :TomaÑ•
>
>     We have never been binary compatible with FreeBSD 5+ and we never
>     will be.
>
>     It's not really a project goal to maintain binary compatibility with
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>     DragonFly's ultimate project goal is
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Supposing software comes up aimed at general ease-of-use or compatibility, 
something like that, what's the most probable general attitude of the core 
project, in the terms of disregard/cooperate?