Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:38:19 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) Message-ID: <396A0A0B.E5D953B4@mail.ptd.net> References: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKAEKGJJAA.davids@webmaster.com>
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David Schwartz wrote: > > > But these market forces will probably still not be strong enough to > > produce native ports. > > > In a previous post you gave two reasons for considering Linux versions > > unsuitable: 1) lack of support, and 2) lack of performance/quality. > > > 1) If a vendor can't or won't provide resources to support Linux > > versions on FreeBSD, it almost certainly can't or won't provide the much > > greater resources to produce a native FreeBSD port. > > The really depends upon the resources/reward ratio. In many cases, it's a > lot easier to make a FreeBSD native version than try to get everything to > work right under emulation. > > The support headaches are approximately the same either way, at least in my > experience. If you're going to officially endorse the use of your Linux > build under FreeBSD, you're going to have to support it. > > > 2) If a particular Linux binary doesn't run well enough on FreeBSD, then > > the vendor's decision to make a native port will be the same regardless > > of the existence of Linux binary support. If the binary does run well > > enough, it doesn't really matter that it is not native; it gets the job > > done. Of course a native version would be nice, but it would not be > > necessary. > > What would happen in that case is that the vendor would be in a troubling > situation. They'd either have to rescind FreeBSD support (and then refund > money to FreeBSD customers and remove a platform from their support list) or > make a native build. I know that if my company were faced with that problem, > we'd make a native build in a second. (Of course, we already have one, but > that's not the point.) I was, for the purposes of argument, accepting Mr. Glass's assumption that the vendor did not support running the Linux binary on FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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