From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 7 14:33:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B19A337B7F8; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:33:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA28603; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:31:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAhVaa03; Fri Jul 7 14:31:48 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA13600; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:32:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200007072132.OAA13600@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) To: pwiley@cadabra.com (Preston S. Wiley) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:32:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), dscheidt@enteract.com (David Scheidt), kris@FreeBSD.ORG (Kris Kennaway), narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi), dann@greycat.com (Dann Lunsford), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Preston S. Wiley" at Jul 06, 2000 07:02:53 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. > > 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... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message