From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 11 18:22: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CDC037BA52; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:21:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([208.187.122.225]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28766; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:21:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <396BC8D1.67E4D1E8@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:24:33 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) References: <200007120116.SAA18556@usr06.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > Without Linux compatibility, BSD wouldn't have enough of a desktop user > > > > base for a company to even consider a native BSD port. The Linux > > > > compatibility was created to draw in users. (i.e. BSD can do everything > > > > Linux can, including run its binaries, plus this and this and this) > > > > The more users BSD has, the more likely there will be a native BSD port. > > > > > > Given this theory, someone should be going balls-to-the-wall > > > on SCO Xenix and UNIX and Solaris x86 emulations, even if the > > > Linux emulation is broken in the process... > > > > You're right, except none of the above have ANY marketing momentum at this > > time. SCO UNIX and Solaris x86 compatibility would get us some kick-ass > > server apps, though. > > Given this theory, someone should be going balls-to-the-wall > on Windows 2000 emulation, even if the SCO Xenix and UNIX, Solaris > x86 emulation, and Linux emulation are broken in the process... Someone is. I'm sure they could use your help. Please take Brett with you. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message