Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:22:10 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux not FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199906151422.HAA05538@deal1.bogs.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:24:29 %2B0200." <14182.17917.921115.728733@foobar.orion.no>
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In message <14182.17917.921115.728733@foobar.orion.no>, "Raymond Wiker" cleopede: >Michael C. Vergallen writes: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote: > > > But why Linux and not FreeBSD also? > > Because FreeBSD dous not have the volume of users Linux apparently has. > > Now to be serious it does not realy matter because Linux Binaries run > > under FreeBSD so the apps from SCO should run on FreeBSD anyway. > > Not *all* applications run under the Linux emulation. Two >notable exceptions are the "free" versions of Allegro Common Lisp and >Harlequin Lispworks. This is (almost) sufficient reason for me to >install Linux on one of my machines... I had a nightmare: Intuit finally decides to support a *nix version of Quicken. Rejoicing, I get out the lighter fluid, ready to ceremonially burn my last M$ machine. Then I find out that Intuit will only support a Linux version, which won't run under FreeBSD. Aaarrrggggghhhh!!!! -Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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