From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 13:17:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA25282 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:17:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25276 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:17:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA16896; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:14:54 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602052114.OAA16896@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Linux Compatibility To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:14:54 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9602052109.AA06324@tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Feb 5, 96 01:10:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > According to Terry Lambert: > > > > > Exactly how complete is the Linux compatibility? Will only some applications > > > run, or will all? Thanks > > > > Only the vast majority of them will run. 8-). > > Forgive me for asking what might be a silly question, > but is there any reason why FreeBSD cannot be configured > to exec Linux binaries by default? It makes it bigger and it makes a GPL'ed component (the Linux shared libraries) part of the default -- and that's a bad thing. If you choose to install the Linux compatability from the CDROM (or via FTP), you effectively do what you are asking about anyway. Is there a reason you can't just pick one menu item while you are installing? 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.