Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:53:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linuxulator: emulation? [was: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB...] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990816124925.9998C-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908161231220.604-100000@eccles.salk.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Tom Bartol wrote: > > I absolutely agree with Jordan on this point. I'm having an increasingly > hard time keeping our lab running FreeBSD over Linux due to pressure from > higher-ups who aren't in the technical trenches with me and who don't > understand the very good technical reasons I have for running FreeBSD > here. One constant sticking point is the linux compatibility module. The > higher-ups see the word "emulator" and all manner of warning messages go > off in their uninformed heads. > > 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... I'd just like to have it described as running a program in "linux mode" In Linux mode, FreeBSD appears exactly a s alinux muchine would to a Linux program and the program can run un-modified. (Now that Red Hat has a market capitialisation of 5Billion$ there will be a lot more linux stuff available) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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