Re: compat_linux / fedora_base

2009-05-19 Thread Austin Hook
[bcc: Vess] Hi Predrag, Thanks for the perspective and especially the tip about the Mathematica install, which should be quite interesting to look at. The number of different and often semi-specialized versions of Linux has certainly multiplied in the years since years ago when we had to u

Re: compat_linux / fedora_base

2009-05-19 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Austin Hook wrote: > [bcc: Vess] > > Hi Nikolay, > > Linux compatibility should enable installing of: > > Mathematica > Maple > MatLab > Oracle > > as well as Opera. I think Opera is a handy way of seeing how Flash can > work. > seems the easiest). I have a feeling that you guys are thinking ab

Re: compat_linux / fedora_base

2009-05-19 Thread Austin Hook
[bcc: Vess] Hi Nikolay, Linux compatibility should enable installing of: Mathematica Maple MatLab Oracle as well as Opera. I think Opera is a handy way of seeing how Flash can work. (Despite many partial answers to the annoying Flash problem, Opera seems the easiest). There often are developm

Re: compat_linux / fedora_base

2009-05-18 Thread Nikolay Sturm
* Austin Hook [2009-05-18]: > Just curious, which way would you fix it? I wouldn't care about it at all. In my opinion the fedora_base package just exists to make opera and one or two other programs run and that's it. If tools of the fedora_base package don't work, it doesn't matter, we don't nee

Re: compat_linux / fedora_base

2009-05-17 Thread Austin Hook
[bcc: Vess] Hi Nikolay, OK, I have looked harder into this stuff. I now appreciate better why OpenBSD's own ldd works with Linux object files. Not having had much experience playing with libraries and linkable object formats since way back, much less dynamically loaded modules, I looked aroun