From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 16:56:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08793 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:56:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA08707 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 10079 invoked by uid 1003); 6 Aug 1998 23:48:50 -0000 Message-ID: <19980807014850.A9235@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 01:48:50 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Michael Cox , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux Compatibility References: <35C9BFF9.CD0CD3AA@austin.bjy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <35C9BFF9.CD0CD3AA@austin.bjy.com>; from Michael Cox on Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 09:38:49AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 1998-08-06 (09:38), Michael Cox wrote: > Are FreeBSD applications compatible with Linux? That's a hard question to answer. Linux comes with an ibcs module, which might just do the trick, but you might run into problems with paths and similar if you're trying to use cinary compatibility. On the source level, it should work perfectly. You might have to do a bit of hacking in the source to change paths to the ugly style that most Linux distributions use, but that's relatively minor. Many FreeBSD applications are ports of Linux-based stuff, which also might help you along. Of course, things will run much better on FreeBSD :) (sorry, I couldn't resist) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message