From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 12:58: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fwgate1e.conexant.com (fwgate1e.conexant.com [198.62.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12A0914D7B for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from housel@acm.org) Received: by fwgate1e.conexant.com; id MAA25515; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:57:09 -0700 Received: from npbsmtp1.nb.conexant.com(157.152.161.153) by fwgate1e.conexant.com via smap (V4.2) id xmaa25467; Mon, 16 Aug 99 12:56:43 -0700 Received: from snail.nb.conexant.com ([157.152.176.120]) by npbsmtp1.nb.conexant.com (Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.3 (778.2 1-4-1999)) with SMTP id 882567CF.006D2A10; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:52:21 -0700 Received: from shrimp.nb.conexant.com (shrimp.nb.conexant.com [157.152.179.9]) by snail.nb.conexant.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA07636 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from housel7352a (housel-7352a.pc.nb.conexant.com [157.152.249.85]) by shrimp.nb.conexant.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA29738 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <00cc01bee821$42d9fe20$55f9989d@nb.conexant.com> From: "Peter S. Housel" To: References: Subject: Re: Linuxulator: emulation? [was: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB...] Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:55:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Bartol wrote: > In a previous e-mail on this or a related thread I saw the term: > > "Linux image activator" > > or something close to this pass by. I think this term gave me a much > closer feeling to what I imagine is really going on the the "linuxulator" > than the term "emulator" and all its baggage. So we could name it the > "Linux image activator" or "Lin-Axe" or some such... How about "Linux Compatibility ABI"? It's accurate, it gives the right impression, and it has an impressive ring to it. Cheers, -Peter- housel@acm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message