From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 23 0:25: 6 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 9E1DB1521A for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:25:04 -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 AAA09826; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:24:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:24:38 -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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message