From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jul 9 13:47:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from bishopston.net (h91.reverse.bishopston.net [24.68.200.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F4837BF38; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:47:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@bishopston.net) Received: (from jamie@localhost) by bishopston.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA79950; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:47:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:47:11 +0100 (BST) From: Jamie Jones Message-Id: <200007092047.VAA79950@bishopston.net> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, davids@webmaster.com, dkelly@hiwaay.net, jamie@bishopston.net Subject: RE: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Schwartz wrote: > If the version under emulation were officially supported, why wouldn't you > buy it? Is it purely for 'religious' reasons? I tend to think of running programs under the emulation API as unsupported. If it were officially supported, that would tip the scales a bit. I may be wrong, but I would trust a native version more than an emulated version, and would be much more likely to pay for something that installed "cleanly" without me having to install a whole load of Linux libraries etc. I prefer FreeBSD to Linux - that's why I'm here. I find it to be more stable, and more coherent (although I'll admit that it's been a few years since I played with Linux). I'd prefer not to install a Linux sub-system on my FreeBSD machine for the reasons I chose FreeBSD in the first place. I'd hope that there are no 'religious' reasons - if push came to shove I would run Linux programs under emulation - but I'd only feel totally confident if the program was native to my OS, especially if I'm forking out money for it. This isn't to knock the Linux emulation project - I have played with it, and it is a very good package - I'd just prefer to run things as nature intended :-) Cheers, Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message