From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 10: 6:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B617837B401 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stargate.clickcom.com (stargate.clickcom.com [209.198.22.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08FF043E42 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:06:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsmailing@clickcom.com) Received: from aesop (calefaction.clickcom.com [209.198.22.19]) by stargate.clickcom.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id RX5LL8V8; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:41:46 -0400 From: "John Straiton" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Linux emulation Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:02:54 -0400 Message-ID: <004201c24eb4$c3269280$fe16c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > in order to run a Linux program > under BSD, the user must first install an emulation program > that is 60 megabytes in size. I had thought that all Unix > variants worked similarly. I am puzzled as to just why the > 60 megabyte program is necessary, and wonder just what it is > that it does. There are several complete operating systems > that are less than 60 megabytes in size (i.e. MS-DOS, Minix). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html Unless I'm mistaken, the short & sweet of it is: It installs the libraries from a recent linux build onto the machine. It'd be more accurate to say it installs linux side-by-side with FreeBSD than to say it's an emulation program. When it sees a program try to access a linux library, it redirects that call from the standard lib homes (/usr/lib , /usr/local/lib) to the installed linux libraries so that the program can work. In my experience it works pretty dang good. John Straiton jks@clickcom.com Clickcom, Inc 704-365-9970x101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message