Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:54:26 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-emulation@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). Message-ID: <199710100324.MAA00556@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Oct 1997 21:10:01 EST." <199710100210.VAA13256@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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> > For kicks today I decided to see if an IDL 5.0 demo would run under > FreeBSD. It quickly quit, unable to ID the system to one it knew. Was > still running startup shell scripts at the time. > > I put ~/bin in the front of $path, and a uname shell script that simply > said "echo Linux". Got IDL to run a little bit further. Said it thought > I had pseudo 8 color when it really wanted TrueColor 16. Then it died. > > Am not going to lose any sleep over it. Thought someone might be > interested. We use IDL 4 and 5 in our radar analysis software products. Naturally, it runs fine under FreeBSD, modulo the fairly severe bugs that are present in IDL 4. This includes the FlexLM license manager. The problem with 16bpp displays (if that is actually what you saw) is a feature of the Linux Motif libraries; we run either at 8bpp (economy mode, somewhat obsolete) or 24bpp. mike
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