From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 20:58:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA27680 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 May 1995 20:58:55 -0700 Received: from fathergoose.net6c.io.org (fathergoose.net6c.io.org [204.92.6.86]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA27674 for ; Tue, 23 May 1995 20:58:52 -0700 Received: (from kwong@localhost) by fathergoose.net6c.io.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA00273 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 May 1995 22:43:28 GMT From: Ken Wong Message-Id: <199505232243.WAA00273@fathergoose.net6c.io.org> Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: Mma for Linux, when? To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 22:43:26 +0000 () In-Reply-To: <9505211853.AA04716@ baycon.org > from "Amancio Hasty" at May 21, 95 11:36:51 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 647 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > To advance a slippery slope argument, settling for Linux application > > > is tantamount to settling for the Linux operating system. Why run > > > FreeBSD at all if all the applications are going to be Linux > > > applications? Why try to encourage more users to try FreeBSD when > > > Linux is so popular and has so much commercial application support? > > > We might as well spend our time and energy into making Linux a > > > better platform and abandon FreeBSD. > > > > The Silence of an OS :) My question to all application developers/providers is why not make it iBCS compatible. then, every OS can run it, at least in theory.