From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 24 12:58:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16E2537B401 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rapier.smartspace.co.za) Received: (qmail 47395 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Feb 2001 20:58:14 -0000 Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:58:14 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Duraid Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: linux apps on freebsd Message-ID: <20010224225814.A47261@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <3A97CA36.811C35A9@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A97CA36.811C35A9@home.com>; from latif2221@home.com on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:50:30PM +0000 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat 2001-02-24 (14:50), Duraid wrote: > moving soon from linux: since most of the apps are written for linux and > run on freebsd using an emulator (or that what i understood) how do they > perform generally and how easy it is to install them and find the > requirements for them. Which applications? Can you give a list? The only common things that need Linux ABI compatibility is Staroffice, acroread, and maybe the Linux Netscape binary if you plan to use Linux plugins. Anything else? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message