From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 6 11:43:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E4814CFD for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id MAA00793; Thu, 6 May 1999 12:43:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 12:43:57 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: David Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments In-Reply-To: <39147.925959103@zippy.cdrom.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, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > So rather than "Linux Emulation" would it not be better understood if > > we said, "FreeBSD supports the Linux ABI (Application Binary > > Interface)"? > > Probably not better "understood", but certainly more tecnically correct. :) Any reason we can't just point out that FreeBSD runs a wide variety of unmodified Linux apps without using the "e" word at all? ;) Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message