Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 22:00:05 -0500 From: "John F. Scipione" <jscipio@rochester.rr.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: linux binary compatability Message-ID: <000701bf6b97$468ad2c0$0400a8c0@Ophelia>
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Dear Members of the FreeBSD team:
I am a user of various linux distrobutions, however I am also an avid participant of the freebsd project. Freebsd has a much more advanced kernel and is generally a more stable and configurable system. My main gripe about linux is that the multiple distributions all seem to produce incompatabilities with each other as they all tend to use different versions of popular applications. Freebsd seems to avoid this problem by only being supported by one vendor, namely you, the freebsd project. Unfortunatly it seems that the various UNIX applications, like those found on www.freshmeat.net, seem to always have some dependency on a part of linux and don't work on freebsd with, at the very least, being recompiled. Is their an effort of the freebsd project to support linux binaries natively, that being, without recompilation. If so, is there a mailing list or other resource that I could perhaps contribute to? I am very interested in helping this to work and I cannot see that it would be at all detriment to the freebsd project. Another question, is their any effort to create a package management system for freebsd like the ones for linux distrobutions such as redhat, debian and stampede? Could you point me in the direction to contribute to that project, if such exists, as well? Thank you for your time and effort, I hope that such a wonderful and helpful project continues and I hope that more users will find their way to freebsd and to all the great people who administer the project.
Thanks again,
John F. Scipione
jscipio@rochester.rr.com
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Dear Members of the FreeBSD team:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> I am a user of various linux
distrobutions, however I am also an avid participant of the freebsd
project. Freebsd has a much more advanced kernel and is generally a more
stable and configurable system. My main gripe about linux is that the
multiple distributions all seem to produce incompatabilities with each other as
they all tend to use different versions of popular applications. Freebsd
seems to avoid this problem by only being supported by one vendor, namely you,
the freebsd project. Unfortunatly it seems that the various UNIX
applications, like those found on <A
href="http://www.freshmeat.net">www.freshmeat.net</A>, seem to always have
some dependency on a part of linux and don't work on freebsd with, at the very
least, being recompiled. Is their an effort of the freebsd project to
support linux binaries natively, that being, without recompilation. If so,
is there a mailing list or other resource that I could perhaps contribute
to? I am very interested in helping this to work and I cannot see that it
would be at all detriment to the freebsd project. Another question, is
their any effort to create a package management system for freebsd like the ones
for linux distrobutions such as redhat, debian and stampede? Could you
point me in the direction to contribute to that project, if such exists, as
well? Thank you for your time and effort, I hope that such a wonderful and
helpful project continues and I hope that more users will find their way to
freebsd and to all the great people who administer the project.
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks again,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>John F. Scipione </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><A
href="mailto:jscipio@rochester.rr.com">jscipio@rochester.rr.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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