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

[Larry McVoy]

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 at 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.
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