Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:55:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Certification again (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) Message-ID: <19981029095550.W25247@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981028223253.64707@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 10:32:53PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810261959440.7308-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au> <19981027131745.M20920@freebie.lemis.com> <19981028223253.64707@nothing-going-on.org>
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On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 22:32:53 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 01:17:45PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 26 October 1998 at 20:04:03 +1030, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> and submit feedback politely asking them to consider a FreeBSD native port, or >>> to endeavour that the Linux version is runnable under emulation. >> >> Why do that? The Linux version should work, > <snip> > > StarOffice. > > As far as I can make out (only having run it infrequently), that was a > great example of how to (gratuitously ?) write something that wasn't > compatible with the emulator. I recall source code patches for /proc > running around so the thing could pick up its arguments, because for > some bizarre reason it didn't parse **argv. We need to distinguish between programs that work well and programs that don't. StarOffice found a number of holes in the emulator, most of which have been fixed. I've used it (and I tried it again just recently). My big problem with StarOffice is not the quality of the emulation, but the fact that I *hate* this kind of application with a vengeance. > Or something like that anyway. > > I hope Linux WP8 will run without a hitch on FreeBSD's Linux emulation. > It gives me one more reason not to have to install NT on my scratch box. If it doesn't, we need to establish why not and fix it. Not the application, the emulator. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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