Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:13:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU (Dave Glowacki) Cc: terry@lambert.org, JSINNOTT@pomona.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Compatibility Message-ID: <199602052213.PAA00375@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602052133.PAA17866@tick.SSEC.WISC.EDU> from "Dave Glowacki" at Feb 5, 96 03:33:46 pm
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> > > Exactly how complete is the Linux compatibility? Will only some applications > > > run, or will all? Thanks > > > > Only the vast majority of them will run. 8-). > > Well, the vast majority of non-ELF applications will run. > > In other words, a slowly decreasing percentage will run until someone > hacks in ELF support. So contact Soren Schmidt and get his ELF patches. I don't know of any major commercial software that has gone ELF; NetScape is certainly still COFF because there are Linux systems that can't run ELF binaries, and it would be silly to cut off your market that way. IMO, increasing percentages will run as more Linux-native apps are also distributed native for BSD. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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