From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Oct 9 19:49:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA17418 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:49:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation) Received: from sag.space.lockheed.com (sag.space.lockheed.com [192.68.162.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA17413 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:49:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from handy@sag.space.lockheed.com) Received: from localhost by sag.space.lockheed.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/21Nov95-0423PM) id AA01779; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:49:26 -0700 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:49:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: freebsd-emulation@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). In-Reply-To: <199710100210.VAA13256@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-Id: X-Files: The truth is out there Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >For kicks today I decided to see if an IDL 5.0 demo would run under >FreeBSD. It quickly quit, unable to ID the system to one it knew. Was >still running startup shell scripts at the time. Aye, yes. It's necessary to hunt though the various scripts and replace "Linux" with "Linux"|"FreeBSD". (Or variations on this theme.) >I put ~/bin in the front of $path, and a uname shell script that simply >said "echo Linux". Got IDL to run a little bit further. Said it thought >I had pseudo 8 color when it really wanted TrueColor 16. Then it died. This is a whole different problem. 16-bit color gives IDL serious indigestion. This is why I spent the bucks for the Xig server, IDL does reasonably OK with 24-bit color. (I use IDL all the time on my FreeBSD box.) Brian