Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:03:32 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903222254360.249-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903222133500.1749-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: > You've suggested the following things that I remember recently: > > - that the Linux emulator has been bad for FreeBSD > > This is contrary to every person I've hooked on FreeBSD. They appreciate > the fact that its stable AND that they can run the preponderance of Linux > apps that are available. I know this is probably a bad thing to do without full body abestos.. but I'd have to agree with the other Brett here, sorta. I really think the Linux emulator is nifty and a great tool and has been useful to me on a few occasions (StarOffice5.. *drool*). But conversly I think it has overall been a bad thing for FreeBSD. It discourages people from creating native fbsd binaries. Look at the blade mp3 encoder. Instead of lobbying the author to make a fbsd version once the BSD/OS one would no longer work, many people instead said oh let's just use the Linux version. You can stick your head in the sand a much as you want, but the sky still hasn't fallen. > - that the ports tree should support every version of FreeBSD Again this would just rock, but it seems to me more like a pipe dream. But what if fetch was made into a port? This way things would be given a fighting chance. Besides how many ports that use flags that work only with the new binutils would even work with a.out binaries? > - that a FreeBSD emulator should be created for Linux in the hopes > that this would make people write directly for FreeBSD <tongue implanted in cheek> How about this. Hack up a mini FreeBSD kernel to run under Win98 and serve as a FreeBSD emulator for Win98? Screw Win32! ;) </tongue> - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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