Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:32:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: pwiley@cadabra.com (Preston S. Wiley) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), dscheidt@enteract.com (David Scheidt), kris@FreeBSD.ORG (Kris Kennaway), narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi), dann@greycat.com (Dann Lunsford), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) Message-ID: <200007072132.OAA13600@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007061858020.75871-100000@freebsd.tesserae.com> from "Preston S. Wiley" at Jul 06, 2000 07:02:53 PM
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> > 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. > > Without Linux compatibility, BSD wouldn't have enough of a desktop user > base for a company to even consider a native BSD port. The Linux > compatibility was created to draw in users. (i.e. BSD can do everything > Linux can, including run its binaries, plus this and this and this) > The more users BSD has, the more likely there will be a native BSD port. Given this theory, someone should be going balls-to-the-wall on SCO Xenix and UNIX and Solaris x86 emulations, even if the Linux emulation is broken in the process... 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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