Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 16:40:54 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc.conf and linux=yes Message-ID: <42188.915842454@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Jan 1999 16:14:04 PST." <199901090014.QAA98015@ix.netcom.com>
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> Why is 'linux_enable="YES"' the default in rc.conf? Dammit, I thought nobody would notice. ;) I switched it on because too many people are reading the online FreeBSD hype where it says "Runs your Linux binaries!" and loading something like Star Office up, only to have it fall over kicking with a very non-descriptive error message (sending them straight to USENET or IRC with general complaints). As obvious as it may sound to you or I, typing "linux" once in order to be able to run linux binaries until the next reboot just isn't obvious to Joe Average User (nor, to state the obvious, is /etc/rc.conf), and for the cost of one small module, it seemed a major increase in FreeBSD's out-of-box functionality. You grab a linux binary off the net and it Just Works. Is that so terrible a thing to want? :-) I'd also be more than happy to turn this right back off again if some of our image activator gurus could change things in such a way that the linux module was demand-loaded upon first use. That would achieve the same effect with even less overhead. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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