From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jun 4 06:59:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA09776 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 06:59:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-gw.pacbell.net (mail-gw.pacbell.net [206.13.28.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA09770 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 06:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackv@earthling.net) Received: from eliot.pacbell.net (ppp-206-170-1-117.snfc21.pacbell.net [206.170.1.117]) by mail-gw.pacbell.net (8.8.8/8.7.1+antispam) with SMTP id GAA15580 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 06:59:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jack Velte" Cc: Subject: FreeBSD Linux emulation Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 06:52:04 -0700 Message-ID: <01bd8fbf$f4dea780$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> In the beginning , the real audio servers and possible also the >> client was developed under FreeBSD . Additionally, their >> Server team lead is a multimedia hacker who used to hang >> around here so they are not new to FreeBSD. > >I installed the real audio/video servers on this machine about a year ago >or thereabouts. Since then it's a Linux application. > >This is really bad for FreeBSD, are there software developers who are just >thinking that they'll develop for Linux and then the FreeBSD emulation >team will just ensure it that anything Linux runs fine. how well does this work? if it works well, then it's a very good thing because it'll be easier to canabalize linux users. 100% linux capability would be a very good thing. is the `emulation' slower? -jack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message