From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 7 17:38:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9D037BAF1; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:38:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([208.187.122.225]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16855; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:38:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39667888.3F79E5E9@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 18:40:40 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Frank Pawlak , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 :Windows))) References: <54397.962948030@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000707004910.046d9ab0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > Frank: > > I have seen that message too; it has been up on their page for quite a long > time now. However, I have also been in direct contact with their > developers, who tell quite a different story. They say that, due to scarce > development resources, they're focusing their efforts exclusively on Linux > and expecting FreeBSD users to run the Linux version under emulation for > the foreseeable future. Which presents absolutely no problems to the user of the software. Your time would be much better spent in encouraging them to test the Linux release on one or more FreeBSD workstations, and/or to advertise it as a Linux/FreeBSD version, than to convince them to undertake another port. FreeBSD doesn't require a Linux emulator, it supports Linux-format ELF binaries, in the same way it supports other binary image formats. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message