From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 23 11:42:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F530153AF for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA278526059; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:07:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:07:38 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: Brett Glass Cc: Brett Taylor , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , wes@softweyr.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD emulation for linux In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990322221248.03ebdf10@localhost> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > Has no one here learned from OS/2? Read my lips: emulating a > more popular platform is suicide. What part of that sentence > don't you understand? I have machines that run FreeBSD because they can emulate Linux and have all the niceness that I'm familiar with. They _would_ be Linux machines without the emulator, and there _would not_ be a FreeBSD version just because I began to pout. Real life example, not some random rant from an overzealous pseudo-coder. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message