From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 1 13:58:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3510D37B401 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:58:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA1Lweb16749 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:58:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA21432 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:58:38 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 33034 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Nov 2001 21:58:35 -0000 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:58:35 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011101225833.A33005@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Questions References: <00d001c162d3$334891e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <00d401c162d7$89c53ce0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011101155914.B30776@student.uu.se> <002101c162ff$3ddada60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011101213559.A32308@student.uu.se> <008a01c1631f$1fd42f60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <008a01c1631f$1fd42f60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:49:43PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Erik explains: > > > To enable it put > > linux_enable="YES" > > into /etc/rc.conf > > Done. It now shows "Additional ABI support: linux" at start up. > > > To run dynamically linked binaries you also > > need a set of linux link-libraries. To get > > those you should install the emulators/linux_base > > port. > > Are there man entries that explain the port procedure? (I tried "man port" to > no avail.) Try 'man ports' instead. > > > Not sure what you are asking here, but yes, > > with the Linux-compatibility stuff installed > > and enabled FreeBSD will run almost > > all Linux-binaries. > > Mostly so that I can run free-standing Linux applications. I'm not interested > so much in trying to get any Linux system software to work. Since there seem to > be lots of Linux applications out there, it would be nice to be able to run them > as-is. Yes, letting people run Linux applications on FreeBSD is the main purpose of the Linux-compatibility stuff. It works quite well. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message