From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 7 0: 1: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410F437BD8E for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 00:01:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA06912; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 00:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 00:12:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706193313.04a8ca40@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:58 PM 7/6/2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > >Read my lips: Nobody is ever going to remove the linux compatability > >code, it's too damn useful, end of discussion. > > This is reality, Jordan. Linux emulation has gotten FreeBSD into serious > trouble vis a vis third party application support -- the lifeblood of any > and much other stuff. I have read this sort of stuff before. I just wanted to check in on Jordan's behalf so that he knows there are FreeBSDites who are in favor of the emulation. I use linux emulation and I consider it a good thing. It works. Its useful. Stallman, GPL, none of that matters to me as I consider the usefulness of my OS of choice. I am sure I could write a great dissertation on the matter. One fact remains, after three years of dire warning FreeBSD still seems to be doing quite well. My -questions traffic is twice what it used to be. I doubt this contrived emulation argument is the death knell that it is made out to be. Thanks, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message