From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 21 06:53:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA06846 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 06:53:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA06823 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 06:53:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de) Received: from duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de (surf77.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.77]) by gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA04718; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:52:54 +0200 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:27:41 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: Linux compatibility question To: "Jeff W." cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980820205731.00832100@ieng9.ucsd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri 21 Aug, Jeff W. wrote: > My kernel has Linux compatibility built in, but I'm wondering what are the > known limits of this? So far I've been able to run Linux based apps fairly > well. I think it has problems with threads - Adabas doesn't work, e.g.. Also, StarOffice4 SP3 doesn't work, due to some funny way it reads from the process filesystem, IIRC. Even Mathematika is said to work, though I doubt that a lot of poeple use it - it costs > 3000 DM ! cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message