From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 4: 0:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from envy.geekhouse.net (envy.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB42D37B479 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 04:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by envy.geekhouse.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAAC0gH03609; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 04:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 04:00:42 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: Mike Batchelor Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape / Linux Message-ID: <20001110040041.B3418@envy.geekhouse.net> Reply-To: jim@lust.geekhouse.net References: <000c01c04bb4$53ba7920$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <000c01c04bb4$53ba7920$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com>; from smujohnson@home.com on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:52:23PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 at 23:52:23 -0800, Mike Batchelor wrote: > Hey guys, >   > Anyways, I was wondering about FreeBSD's Linux emulation capabilities. It's not really emulation. It's binary compatibility. > I used to use FreeBSD until I found out that new releases of various > applications (ie Netscape, Snes9x) favoured Linux and Windows over all > the other OS's, and plus the fact that I couldn't get Netscape working > on FreeBSD rel4.1.1.  I went to Linux Slackware and was sadly > dissapointed because of it's "incompleteness" compared to FreeBSD. What was the problem you had with Netscape? > Now I'm wondering, can I run Linux applications on FreeBSD such as X > applications?  I guess I'd like to get the latest version of Netscape > running on FreeBSD, as well as a Linux version of Snes9x (if possible) Why do you need the Linux version of snes9x? Use the port. Ditto with Netscape (the Linux version of Netscape tends to be more stable, at least for me, and works with stuff like the flash plugin). For Netscape: Choose one of the Netscape ports in /usr/ports/www. For snes9x: cd /usr/ports/emulators/snes9x && make install distclean - jim -- jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message