Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 11:23:32 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, jmutter@netwalk.com, "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.990505112149.15848A-100000@poirot.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990505081901.B24172@ontario.mooseriver.com>
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 10:50:37PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > It does reflect the weaknesses in the current marketing and promotion > > of FreeBSD. In particular, the article mentions the lack of native > > application support. (Running Linux binaries under emulation isn't > > acceptable to the IT crowd; the platform must be SUPPORTED by the > > application vendor.) I've been using FreeBSD for years and have no objection to running Linux programs in emulation mode. However, I have seen this by IT people before. Maybe it would be more advantagous to rephrase it as "Native Linux Binary" support or something similar just to catch those in IT who aren't bright enough to understand what that means. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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