From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 15:11:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D9E37B4CF for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:11:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eAENBZe24844; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:11:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:11:35 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Alexander Rudak , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <20001114151134.E11449@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <13407.001114@ro.com.ua> <20001114000357.A11449@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001115004325.B1194@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001115004325.B1194@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:43:25AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Giorgos Keramidas [001114 14:43] wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:03:57AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >* Alexander Rudak [001113 23:46] wrote: > >> and almost every serious company has Linux version of its product (?). > > > > That's untrue, there are tons of companies neglegting the Linux community > > just as much as the FreeBSD project. > > This does not imply the inverse though, that there are no companies that do > not neglect Linux. You are being unfair here, Alfred. The man just noted > that there are lots of companies that have Linux-versions of their products > and do not have native FreeBSD versions too. Although his statement is not > false, it is not true for the entirety of companies either. Are we playing > hide n' seek with words here? He started it! :P Besideds, with a little effort we've had numerous large Linux applications such as Oracle, Fortran compilers, video players (realplayer), and web browsers working on FreeBSD under emulation, so just because there's no native version, it doesn't rule out running the application. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message