Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 13:31:24 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c Message-ID: <87984.931206684@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:17:11 MDT." <199907052017.OAA57498@harmony.village.org>
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> It is better to not bloat the netscape numbers. Also, uname is > returning what OS we are running on.... Actually, I have to say that I'm starting to get that weird taste in the back of my mouth that I get whenever I know marketing is making the engineering dept. do bad technical things for seemingly good marketing reasons. :-) I think Marcel and others have a point when they say that all consumers of uname(3) can't necessarily be patched (it's not JUST an installation script problem when anyone's free to bypass uname(1)) and that a linux application is likely to do any number of sneaky things to try and figure out which Linux distribution it's using. We need to plan for that and if we're going for true "I can't believe it's not Linux" compatability from the application's point of view (to parrot a popular Margarine commercial), it seems to make more sense to do everything in our power to fool the application into thinking it's on a Linux box and not worry so much about what the marketing dept. is going to say. Being able to say that we transparently run Linux binaries (with a lot more transparency than we offer now) is, in my humble opinion, a far more important goal from both a marketing and a technical perspective. Speaking of which, I'm also of the opinion that we should add a "Do you want to run Linux binaries?" query to sysinstall which results in linux emulation being enabled by default and the linux_lib package being loaded. This would make it even more transparent to the user. Any objections? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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