From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 15 9:27: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B35115018 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:26:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from markab (markab [128.130.111.33]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA02583; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:26:28 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:26:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Raymond Wiker Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux not FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <14182.17917.921115.728733@foobar.orion.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Raymond Wiker wrote: > Not *all* applications run under the Linux emulation. ...and not all are trivial to install. Personally I believe that complete and transparent (concerning installation) emulation in -RELEASE are a most important feature to prevent sites like mine from migrating to Linux if users push stronger and stronger. Note, this a not flame, rather a report from someone who has had to defend FreeBSD repeatedly. > Is there a mailing list/forum for discussing the Linux emulation under > FreeBSD? emulation@freebsd.org, http://www.freebsd.org/ has the details on how to subscribe etc. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message