From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 5 8:24: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from umd5.umd.edu (umd5.umd.edu [128.8.10.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D0F5157D2 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from poirot.umd.edu (poirot.umd.edu [128.8.10.129]) by umd5.umd.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA24898; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:23:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by poirot.umd.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA17920; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:23:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: poirot.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 11:23:32 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard X-Sender: howardjp@poirot.umd.edu To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Cc: Brett Glass , jmutter@netwalk.com, "Viren R. Shah" , Steve Kargl , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments In-Reply-To: <19990505081901.B24172@ontario.mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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