Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 18:35:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On advocating FreeBSD and the Halloween memo... Message-ID: <199811031835.LAA01373@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199811031724.MAA28109@shell.monmouth.com> from "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" at Nov 3, 98 12:24:38 pm
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> It's time to stop worrying about the *BSD vs. SysV history and flame wars. > SysV won. They've got the applications we need here commercially > (Frame, Acrobat Distiler). I'd put FreeBSD on the desktops for my > office in a minute if it could do those things under emulation or > otherwise. [ ... ] > OK, when do we go forward. I think it's time to say something like > "by June 99 we need Full 100% Linux emulation including /proc and > installation tools for rpm's and such" and by December 99we should > be beta-ing Solaris x86 and Unixware compatibility (including > install capability). I think you have these in the wrong order. I think FreeBSD should move toward IABI and Solaris binary compatability in the default OS, changing system calls and manifest constant values, as necessary, to achieve this. That will get you your applications the fastest. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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