From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 12:59:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D41C14D33 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA17808; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:52:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:53:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Tom Bartol Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linuxulator: emulation? [was: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB...] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Tom Bartol wrote: > > I absolutely agree with Jordan on this point. I'm having an increasingly > hard time keeping our lab running FreeBSD over Linux due to pressure from > higher-ups who aren't in the technical trenches with me and who don't > understand the very good technical reasons I have for running FreeBSD > here. One constant sticking point is the linux compatibility module. The > higher-ups see the word "emulator" and all manner of warning messages go > off in their uninformed heads. > > In a previous e-mail on this or a related thread I saw the term: > > "Linux image activator" > > or something close to this pass by. I think this term gave me a much > closer feeling to what I imagine is really going on the the "linuxulator" > than the term "emulator" and all its baggage. So we could name it the > "Linux image activator" or "Lin-Axe" or some such... I'd just like to have it described as running a program in "linux mode" In Linux mode, FreeBSD appears exactly a s alinux muchine would to a Linux program and the program can run un-modified. (Now that Red Hat has a market capitialisation of 5Billion$ there will be a lot more linux stuff available) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message