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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:24:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903230022270.9808-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903230009030.5750-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>

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On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Brett Taylor wrote:

> This has nothing to do w/ the emulator.  If people WANT FreeBSD binaries
> then they have to ask and push and prod the author to give them to us.
> If people don't push to have them we won't get them until we have a big
> enough user base that the author thinks of it.  Having a FreeBSD emulator
> for Linux doesn't alleviate the above situation at all.

If it creates a stable ABI/API for a programmer to use, then yes it very
well might alleviate the situation at hand.  That said, IMO there are much
better things to spend time on (read: NFS, PAM, etc).

- alex



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