From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 30 12:53:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26021 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:53:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26016 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:53:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul2.u.washington.edu (root@saul2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.21]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA27040; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:52:28 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id MAA26064; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:48:07 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Harold Kinchelow Jr cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: just need to know In-Reply-To: <35E99485.2F5F1F67@worldnet.att.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message