[bf1942] Linux server status report 2003-04-09

[Sam Evans]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Fredriksson, Andreas wrote:

>
> Hi people,
> I'm back at work now and atleast the fever is gone..
>
> I haven't been working full-time with the linux port since I'm doing other
> things
> here as well, but here's a short rundown of what has happened.
>
> - I have evaluated moving to completely static linkage of the server binary
> for
>   many reasons, but chiefly:
>   1) DICE only needs to distribute and test for bugs in one version
>   2) It allows almost everyone (kernel issues aside) to run the binary
>
>   I think this makes sense given that most people will have a fairly new
> kernel,
>   2.4.x atleast.

I'm curious how this will affect folks who are running FreeBSD and using
Linux Compatibility mode?