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Date:      Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:05:38 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, "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:  <199908162005.NAA01196@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:53:55 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.990816124925.9998C-100000@current1.whistle.com> 

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And whats Whistle market capitilization since becoming part of IBM ? 8)


> 
> 
> 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)
> 
> > 
> 
> 
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