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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:54:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nash Nipples <trashy_bumper@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Server - Linux Compat
Message-ID:  <14408.27979.qm@web110505.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <8C1536C109064AD5A92F8609916AB2CB@GRANT>

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> When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed
> FreeBSD 4.4 for the 
> first time, I enabled linux compatability ...
> 
> Each build since, I have enabled it ...
> 
> So not I am at the point of asking myself why?
> 
> All I run is webservers and namesrvers, you know, Bind,
> Apache, Mysql, 
> vmpop3d, PHP, Exim and shh...not to mention a few utils,
> ipa, ipfw etc.
> 
> Does anyone have any compelling reason I should continue to
> enable linux 
> compatability?
> 
> Are there any pitfalls (Security, Performance) in doing so?
> 
> -Grant 

if there is no warning in the comments i think its harmless
nobody knows when you are going to need a linux binary to run
lsof maybe?


      



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