-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 31 March 2007 13:28, Nagarjuna G. wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On 31-Mar-07, at 1:01 PM, Vihan Pandey wrote: > >>> I use ARM GCC and SDCC on window XP. > >>> This list can be pro Linux but definitely not anti Window. > >> > >> Policies of the company that made that system make very > >> difficult NOT to be > >> anti windoze. > > > > pro or anti is irrelevant - since doze is not open source, we > > cant do anything about defects. So why waste our time complaining > > about it? If you have paid for vista and cant compile something > > this list is not the place to complain ... > > It is clearly a matter of concern if free software like firefox, > openoffice, GIMP, inkscape, blender etc are compiled for Vista, and > if they don't take full advantage of the system due to restriction > of the OS. User's will assume that free software works less > efficiently, without understanding that the cause is due to their > digital restrictions management. Let us remember that most of free > software today is inter operable, except of course the kernel > Linux.
Are these packages you mention (Firefox, etc.) compiled on Winduhs with GCC and glibc, or are they compiled with some proprietary compiler and linked with the native Winduhs libraries? If the latter, they may have other issues but they won't be suffering from this specific problem, since it only affects GCC/glibc executables under Vistula. Further, I'm not convinced that the original problem reported by Nicely is definitely a limitation in Vistula. It's possible that the System API in Vistula has changed, and there are different kernel interfaces to allocate up to 32MB and more than 32MB of RAM (for example). I'm neither a kernel hacker nor a compiler guru so I can only guess at potential problems, but then neither is Nicely apparently, and I prefer to reserve judgement about (malice || stupidity) until the hackers and gurus have spoken. Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDq7NyWjQ78xo0X8RAvSmAJsHyyZm6UXrveiPpV/DobC0y4GbtwCfYB9B fa8jyTzEI2/kLWxZ99qyF24= =VBvC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
