From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 15 7:22:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (bogslab.ucdavis.edu [169.237.68.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4073414EFC for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:22:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from deal1.bogs.org (deal1.bogs.org [198.137.203.51]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA14329 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deal1.bogs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deal1.bogs.org (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id HAA05538 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906151422.HAA05538@deal1.bogs.org> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-To: "Raymond Wiker" X-Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux not FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:24:29 +0200." <14182.17917.921115.728733@foobar.orion.no> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:22:10 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <14182.17917.921115.728733@foobar.orion.no>, "Raymond Wiker" cleopede: >Michael C. Vergallen writes: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote: > > > But why Linux and not FreeBSD also? > > Because FreeBSD dous not have the volume of users Linux apparently has. > > Now to be serious it does not realy matter because Linux Binaries run > > under FreeBSD so the apps from SCO should run on FreeBSD anyway. > > Not *all* applications run under the Linux emulation. Two >notable exceptions are the "free" versions of Allegro Common Lisp and >Harlequin Lispworks. This is (almost) sufficient reason for me to >install Linux on one of my machines... I had a nightmare: Intuit finally decides to support a *nix version of Quicken. Rejoicing, I get out the lighter fluid, ready to ceremonially burn my last M$ machine. Then I find out that Intuit will only support a Linux version, which won't run under FreeBSD. Aaarrrggggghhhh!!!! -Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message