From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 22 23: 8:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-36.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676A81533D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:07:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA01845; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:03:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:03:32 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda To: Brett Taylor Cc: Brett Glass , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: > You've suggested the following things that I remember recently: > > - that the Linux emulator has been bad for FreeBSD > > This is contrary to every person I've hooked on FreeBSD. They appreciate > the fact that its stable AND that they can run the preponderance of Linux > apps that are available. I know this is probably a bad thing to do without full body abestos.. but I'd have to agree with the other Brett here, sorta. I really think the Linux emulator is nifty and a great tool and has been useful to me on a few occasions (StarOffice5.. *drool*). But conversly I think it has overall been a bad thing for FreeBSD. It discourages people from creating native fbsd binaries. Look at the blade mp3 encoder. Instead of lobbying the author to make a fbsd version once the BSD/OS one would no longer work, many people instead said oh let's just use the Linux version. You can stick your head in the sand a much as you want, but the sky still hasn't fallen. > - that the ports tree should support every version of FreeBSD Again this would just rock, but it seems to me more like a pipe dream. But what if fetch was made into a port? This way things would be given a fighting chance. Besides how many ports that use flags that work only with the new binutils would even work with a.out binaries? > - that a FreeBSD emulator should be created for Linux in the hopes > that this would make people write directly for FreeBSD How about this. Hack up a mini FreeBSD kernel to run under Win98 and serve as a FreeBSD emulator for Win98? Screw Win32! ;) - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message