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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:04:40 -0200
From:      "Paiva, Gilson de" <g-paiva@el.com.br>
To:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Without BSD...(humor)
Message-ID:  <39E6DE38.715BCE5C@el.com.br>
References:  <39E084A8.3D20844@uswest.net> <20001008191356.A24008@mithrandr.moria.org> <20001011233257.B14974@widomaker.com> <39E5415B.EDC0122E@wiegand.org>

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Chip wrote:
> 
> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >
> > * lots snipped *
> >
> > Hopefully the BSD systems will fully benefit from the large library of
> > software being created for Linux, and at the same time can influence the path
> > Linux is taking.  It needs help.
> >
> BSD will run linux apps just fine, in fact, some say BSD runs
> Linux
> apps better or faster than Linux itself. I am running a couple
> Linux
>

Maybe this is an off topic to this list but here it goes...
I've been trying to run a linux software that controls a brazilian nobreak and
it fails to initialize saying that a "lock operation" is not supported on that
serial device.
The software vendor doesn't release the code of its application, so I can't, nor
I'm able to, look what is going on there.
On the same machine, Linux runs it nicely, so that's a hint that indicates a
imperfection in the Linux emulation module FreeBSD is running.
There is a module for this hardware at "The Nut Project" (
http://www.exploits.org/nut/ ), but again it doesn't work. People who wrote it
are unfamiliar with the *BSD world and just give me tips like " Are you sure the
serial cable is correctly attached ...".
The solution is, in my opinion, run the software on a FreeBSD box, instead of
having a Linux just for doing this.

Any idea of how do I get this working?
PS: My FreeBSD boxes are 4.1.1 Stable and Linux base 6.1.

> apps on my FBSD system because they are not available in a BSD
> port or
> package. I've none of them, or any BSD app, ever crash on me.
> 
> --
> Chip W.
> www.wiegand.org
> Alternative Operating Systems
> 
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