Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 12:31:26 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Zippy <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape browser Message-ID: <52189.921875486@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:10:02 MST." <4.1.19990319090556.00b604d0@localhost>
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> >Doubt this would work. The reason the present system works (Linux > >emulation under FreeBSD) is because it's in FreeBSD's interest to support > >the linux emulation. The reverse isn't true, unfortunately. > > Doesn't matter. WE'd do it, just as AT&T created Plan 9 emulation for > UNIX. An emulation that the typical Linux user had to download and incorporate into their kernel in order to get it to work would, by no means, make the average software vendor jump up and down about how FreeBSD was now a universal API (as Brett desires). That's too much to expect of the typical Linux user. That means you couldn't just take the "doesn't matter" attitude here since you'd want the emulation *bundled* into Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, etc. in order to be effective. Please, at least think things through to a minimal degree while you're making your wish lists. :) > Because FreeBSD, by some estimates, has 2/3 the installed base of Linux. I think those estimates probably involved large amounts of crack cocaine. There's no way in hell we're 2/3rds their size; that's wishful thinking on a grand scale. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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