From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 16:13:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14801 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:13:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14788 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:13:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA29219 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 01:13:12 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA04199; 12 Mar 98 00:15:48 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 11 Mar 98 23:10:48 +0100 Subject: FreeBSD Message-ID: <635_9803120015@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: <01bd4ce5$a54f47a0$223085ce@default> Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11 Mar 98 13:03:03 "brenda lambiris" wrote regarding FreeBSD "l> is freebsd linux, or unix. Will I be able to run linux "l> applications on FreeBSD? If i buy the linux games CD, is there "l> a guarentee i will be able to run all the software on the CD? "l> thanks. Legally, neither. FreeBSD can run linux binaries. Statistically, I can almost guarentee, that there exists _something_ which won't run. Unix is a trademark, so FreeBSD isn't unix, legally speaking. But it is anyway in practice... Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message