From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 8 17:14:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22404 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:14:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22398 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:14:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA93191; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:20:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199901090120.RAA93191@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: rc.conf and linux=yes In-Reply-To: <42188.915842454@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 8, 1999 4:40:54 pm" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:20:25 -0800 (PST) Cc: tomdean@ix.netcom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Jordan K. Hubbard: > > Why is 'linux_enable="YES"' the default in rc.conf? > > Dammit, I thought nobody would notice. ;) > > I switched it on because too many people are reading the online > FreeBSD hype where it says "Runs your Linux binaries!" and loading > something like Star Office up, only to have it fall over kicking with > a very non-descriptive error message (sending them straight to USENET > or IRC with general complaints). As obvious as it may sound to you or > I, typing "linux" once in order to be able to run linux binaries until > the next reboot just isn't obvious to Joe Average User (nor, to state > the obvious, is /etc/rc.conf), and for the cost of one small module, > it seemed a major increase in FreeBSD's out-of-box functionality. You > grab a linux binary off the net and it Just Works. Is that so > terrible a thing to want? :-) Statically linked binaries Just Work. Otherwise, Joe Average User still needs: cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_lib make install -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message