From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 8 9:34:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9668C37C086; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04298; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 10:34:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000707211017.04804550@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:13:14 -0600 To: Will Andrews , Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Narvi , Dann Lunsford , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000707155808.J10303@argon.gryphonsoft.com> References: <20000707211621.C35215@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706225433.0475b4d0@localhost> <54201.962945434@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706225433.0475b4d0@localhost> <20000707082704.Z35215@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000707003817.04760d40@localhost> <20000707211621.C35215@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:58 PM 7/7/2000, Will Andrews wrote: >We could document which Linux syscalls should be changed into what BSD >syscalls, to ease the job of porting. "Porting kits" are good if they are well supported. A badly supported one can drive vendors away. Microsoft offered a porting kit that allowed Windows apps to be ported to OS/2, but it was so bad that it actually discouraged and delayed ports. (Micrografx did a good one, so Microsoft bludgeoned them into dropping it by threatening to destroy their business. This shows that they thought it was a real threat.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message