Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 19:28:45 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com>, chat@FreeBSD.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190244.0483ad70@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000706175305.65249A-100000@shell-2.enteract .com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706155807.04468240@localhost>
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At 04:54 PM 7/6/2000, David Scheidt wrote: >Only because no one has written a BSD licensed replacement for them. I'm >sure that if someone would supply them, they'd get committed. Duplicating all of the idiosyncrasies of the Linux libraries would require a "clean room" approach, so it would take at least two people -- not one. Also, ongoing "clean rooming" would be necessary to accommodate changes to Linux as they came. All of this would be a waste of effort compared to writing a *BSD* emulator that would run on many platforms and get us more native ports. Making a better Linux emulator is counterproductive. The better Linux emulation is on BSD, the less likely it is that FreeBSD will get native ports of key applications. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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