From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 15 14:10:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop3.gte.net (smtppop3pub.gte.net [206.46.170.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536D137B6FC; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:10:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from res03db2@gte.net) Received: from evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net (evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net [4.34.146.5]) by smtppop3.gte.net with ESMTP ; id QAA3239151 Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:09:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:09:30 -0700 (PDT) From: The Clark Family X-Sender: res03db2@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net To: Brett Glass Cc: David Scheidt , Kris Kennaway , Narvi , Dann Lunsford , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190244.0483ad70@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have a FreeBSD emulator. Its called NetBSD. [RC] On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:54 PM 7/6/2000, David Scheidt wrote: > > >Only because no one has written a BSD licensed replacement for them. I'm > >sure that if someone would supply them, they'd get committed. > > Duplicating all of the idiosyncrasies of the Linux libraries would > require a "clean room" approach, so it would take at least two people -- > not one. Also, ongoing "clean rooming" would be necessary to accommodate > changes to Linux as they came. > > All of this would be a waste of effort compared to writing a *BSD* emulator > that would run on many platforms and get us more native ports. Making a > better Linux emulator is counterproductive. The better Linux emulation is > on BSD, the less likely it is that FreeBSD will get native ports of key > applications. > > --Brett > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message