Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:38:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: staroffice/linux-compat on Current working? Message-ID: <199809210238.TAA02401@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 10:54:02 %2B1000." <1414.906339242@dstc.edu.au>
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> > Are there known problems with linux compat and current? Yes. There are also unknown problems. > I snarfed an OpenLinux CD with staroffice 4.0 and found > that it worked right up to about 30 seconds of elapsed > walltime when truss shows its spinlooped in SIGNAL 11 and > it has to be killed. > > Could be an applications error of course. I'm just assuming that > while current stabilizes as 3.0 there may be some compat problems > which can catch the unwary. This isn't likely to be one of them. > If this is of concern, I can try to provide better debug/trace if > somebody cares. What is needed is an active developer (or perhaps several) working on Linux emulation as an active project. We don't have any such at this point in time. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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