From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 6 18:30:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BCC37BC31; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:30:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01332; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:30:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190244.0483ad70@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 19:28:45 -0600 To: David Scheidt From: Brett Glass Subject: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) Cc: Kris Kennaway , Narvi , Dann Lunsford , chat@FreeBSD.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706155807.04468240@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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-chat" in the body of the message