From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 30 20:26:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1CF15159 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 20:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA21476; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 20:51:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 20:51:57 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "John F. Scipione" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux binary compatability Message-ID: <20000130205156.N13027@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <000701bf6b97$468ad2c0$0400a8c0@Ophelia> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000701bf6b97$468ad2c0$0400a8c0@Ophelia>; from jscipio@rochester.rr.com on Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 10:00:05PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * John F. Scipione [000130 19:23] wrote: > Dear Members of the FreeBSD team: > > I am a user of various linux distrobutions, however I am also > an avid participant of the freebsd project. Freebsd has a much > more advanced kernel and is generally a more stable and configurable > system. My main gripe about linux is that the multiple distributions > all seem to produce incompatabilities with each other as they all > tend to use different versions of popular applications. Freebsd > seems to avoid this problem by only being supported by one vendor, > namely you, the freebsd project. Unfortunatly it seems that the > various UNIX applications, like those found on www.freshmeat.net, > seem to always have some dependency on a part of linux and don't > work on freebsd with, at the very least, being recompiled. Is > their an effort of the freebsd project to support linux binaries > natively, that being, without recompilation. If so, is there a > mailing list or other resource that I could perhaps contribute to? > I am very interested in helping this to work and I cannot see that > it would be at all detriment to the freebsd project. Another > question, is their any effort to create a package management system > for freebsd like the ones for linux distrobutions such as redhat, > debian and stampede? Could you point me in the direction to > contribute to that project, if such exists, as well? Thank you > for your time and effort, I hope that such a wonderful and helpful > project continues and I hope that more users will find their way > to freebsd and to all the great people who administer the project. Please read the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/linuxemu.html -Alfred > > Thanks again, > > John F. Scipione > jscipio@rochester.rr.com > -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message