Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:58:35 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011101225833.A33005@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <008a01c1631f$1fd42f60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <00d001c162d3$334891e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <00d401c162d7$89c53ce0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011101155914.B30776@student.uu.se> <002101c162ff$3ddada60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011101213559.A32308@student.uu.se> <008a01c1631f$1fd42f60$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:49:43PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Erik explains: > > > To enable it put > > linux_enable="YES" > > into /etc/rc.conf > > Done. It now shows "Additional ABI support: linux" at start up. > > > To run dynamically linked binaries you also > > need a set of linux link-libraries. To get > > those you should install the emulators/linux_base > > port. > > Are there man entries that explain the port procedure? (I tried "man port" to > no avail.) Try 'man ports' instead. > > > Not sure what you are asking here, but yes, > > with the Linux-compatibility stuff installed > > and enabled FreeBSD will run almost > > all Linux-binaries. > > Mostly so that I can run free-standing Linux applications. I'm not interested > so much in trying to get any Linux system software to work. Since there seem to > be lots of Linux applications out there, it would be nice to be able to run them > as-is. Yes, letting people run Linux applications on FreeBSD is the main purpose of the Linux-compatibility stuff. It works quite well. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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