Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 14:27:07 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, jmutter@netwalk.com, "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments Message-ID: <37654.925939627@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 May 1999 11:23:32 EDT." <Pine.OSF.3.95q.990505112149.15848A-100000@poirot.umd.edu>
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The fundamental problem is that "emulation" is the wrong word here but people use it anyway. What FreeBSD offers isn't "Linux emulation", it's "Linux binary compatibility." The dividing line may seem thin, but "Emulation" conjures up all kinds of visions of the binary actually being emulated through some tortuous series of extra steps rather than a binary simply calling a different syscall table (not an extra one, just a *different* one). Be sure and try to make that point in any interviews you do; I do. [And I'm sure Brett has something to say about this, but I don't care. :)] - Jordan > On Wed, 5 May 1999, Josef Grosch wrote: > > > On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 10:50:37PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > > It does reflect the weaknesses in the current marketing and promotion > > > of FreeBSD. In particular, the article mentions the lack of native > > > application support. (Running Linux binaries under emulation isn't > > > acceptable to the IT crowd; the platform must be SUPPORTED by the > > > application vendor.) > > I've been using FreeBSD for years and have no objection to running Linux > programs in emulation mode. However, I have seen this by IT people > before. Maybe it would be more advantagous to rephrase it as "Native > Linux Binary" support or something similar just to catch those in IT who > aren't bright enough to understand what that means. > > Jamie > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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