From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 14:02:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21772 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:02:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mental ([207.113.85.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21599 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:01:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by mental (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA00334; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:00:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mental: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:00:33 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim X-Sender: spork@mental Reply-To: spork To: Dustin Pika cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will Linux applications run in FreeBSD??? In-Reply-To: <19980311054828.27390.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Dustin Pika wrote: > I have a followup question: > > Since FreeBSD and Linux packages are both Unix based opperating systems, > will Linux applications run/compile in FreeBSD??? > > > > Thanks in advance, > Dustin Pika > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > You can enable linux emulation (the "linuxulator") and can then run apps from linux, though not ones wich use linux specific kernel stuff. I am running Netscape 4.04 for linux 2.0, and it works fine. (on 2.2.5) As for compilation, I think it would be application dependant. -Spike Gronim spork@cncn.com "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good" --Computer Contradictionary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message