From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 11:40:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18491 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:40:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18305 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA16052; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:39:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:39:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: brenda lambiris cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <01bd4ce5$a54f47a0$223085ce@default> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, brenda lambiris wrote: > is freebsd linux, or unix. Will I be able to run linux applications on > FreeBSD? Most, probably. > If i buy the linux games CD, is there a guarentee i will be able > to run all the software on the CD? thanks. No guarantees, butyou might get lucky. The Linux games probably want svgalib which we don't really support. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message