From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 15 5:34:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgrd.orion.no (postkontor.orion.no [194.143.1.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F020014D2D for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 05:34:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raymond@orion.no) Received: from postkontor.orion.no (unverified [62.92.20.132]) by mailgrd.orion.no (Integralis SMTPRS 2.04) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:24:44 +0200 Received: from foobar.orion.no by postkontor.orion.no with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1460.8) id MRVC6T4Y; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:24:49 +0200 X-Mailer: 21.2 "Clio" XEmacs Lucid (beta12) (via feedmail 8 I); VM 6.71 under 21.2 "Clio" XEmacs Lucid (beta12) From: "Raymond Wiker" MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <14182.17917.921115.728733@foobar.orion.no> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:24:29 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux not FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: References: <025d01beb725$37acd860$380051c2@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael C. Vergallen writes: > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote: > > But why Linux and not FreeBSD also? > Because FreeBSD dous not have the volume of users Linux apparently has. > Now to be serious it does not realy matter because Linux Binaries run > under FreeBSD so the apps from SCO should run on FreeBSD anyway. Not *all* applications run under the Linux emulation. Two notable exceptions are the "free" versions of Allegro Common Lisp and Harlequin Lispworks. This is (almost) sufficient reason for me to install Linux on one of my machines... Is there a mailing list/forum for discussing the Linux emulation under FreeBSD? //Raymond. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message