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Date:      Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:48:07 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Harold Kinchelow Jr <kb7rsi@worldnet.att.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: just need to know
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980830124610.9998C-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35E99485.2F5F1F67@worldnet.att.net>

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On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Harold Kinchelow Jr wrote:

>Just a straight question.
>Will the FreeBSD os  support programs written for Unix and Linux?
>Just need to know befor i install it and try it out.
>Thanks and as i can tell by reading the docs,
>I like it
>Harold

Straight question, but not so easy an answer.

Any thing that somes with source code is probably already ported to
FreeBSD.

Any thing that is binary only will run under linux emulation.

Read http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html to see if your app is listed.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


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