From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jun 4 20:08:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA12794 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:08:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA12750 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00391; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:07:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199806050307.WAA00391@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Linux emulation In-Reply-To: <01bd8ffb$a3e37cc0$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> from Jack Velte at "Jun 4, 98 01:59:18 pm" To: jackv@earthling.net (Jack Velte) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:07:58 -0500 (EST) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, yelowjam@pacbell.net From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jack Velte said: > > > >Jack Velte said: > >> > >> how well does this work? if it works well, then it's a very good thing > >> because it'll be easier to canabalize linux users. 100% linux capability > >> would be a very good thing. is the `emulation' slower? > >> > >Generally FreeBSD emulation of Linux is slightly faster, and MUCH faster > >under load. Running certain LL benchmarks, FreeBSD is slower, but app > >performance is supurb. > > do 100% of the app's run 100% of the time? (except for the buggy ones, eh?) > > then a slogan like, "freebsd, the stable linux," would work pretty well in > linux journal, maybe. > Unfortunately, it is hard to standardize against a moving target. FreeBSD isn't quite 100%, but more like 95-99%. Not good enough for 100%, unless a seriously funded organization is willing to work the support issues to force it to 100%. :-(. Earlier on, I had a dream of a Linux upgrade in the form of slipping in a FreeBSD kernel. It would almost work, but not quite (device nodes, some missing Linux emulation API, etc.) :-(. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message