Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:09:30 -0700 (PDT) From: The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007151408550.9286-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190244.0483ad70@localhost>
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We have a FreeBSD emulator. Its called NetBSD. <Grin> [RC] On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:54 PM 7/6/2000, David Scheidt wrote: > > >Only because no one has written a BSD licensed replacement for them. I'm > >sure that if someone would supply them, they'd get committed. > > Duplicating all of the idiosyncrasies of the Linux libraries would > require a "clean room" approach, so it would take at least two people -- > not one. Also, ongoing "clean rooming" would be necessary to accommodate > changes to Linux as they came. > > All of this would be a waste of effort compared to writing a *BSD* emulator > that would run on many platforms and get us more native ports. Making a > better Linux emulator is counterproductive. The better Linux emulation is > on BSD, the less likely it is that FreeBSD will get native ports of key > applications. > > --Brett > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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