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OSKIT & opensource
Hmmm... just checked my e-mail and found a bit of bickering on the
oskit-user group.... not what it's for (agree with the responses though).
Open source is a valuable movement & I suggest that if you disagree that
you try Linux Mandrake 8.0. It beats out Solaris UNIX 8.0 any day (except
in SMP's larger than 8 & Solaris has IP V.6).
I've worked with oskit to write systems applications such as partition
managers, file backup/restore utilities, hobby-operating systems, and
experiments of my own. All of this I could not have done without
open-source. With GNU I've been able to understand POSIX compliant UNIX
platforms, C, C++, FORTRAN, and Java programming as a high schooler without
having to buy expesive comercial products.
As for the question of oskit compiling on beos this is my response:
1)If beos has a posix compliant c library your c library is not a problem
2)If your gcc compiler & linker are gcc compliant and can make elf
executables you're fine
If that doesn't solve it look for the latest gcc compiler, assembler, and
linker. You may also look into remaking the make files for the beos make
program... if you look at Windows their makefiles (for MS Visual C++) are
WAY different.
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