From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 7 20:18:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www3.pacific-pages.com (www3.pacific-pages.com [192.41.48.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B130937B42C for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@www3.pacific-pages.com) Received: from d.tracker ([216.191.73.86]) by www3.pacific-pages.com (8.8.5) id VAA22388; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 21:17:59 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f383HQL36895; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 23:17:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 23:14:59 -0400 From: David Banning To: Bill Barnes Cc: Mail List Subject: Re: Linux binary mode / possl package Message-ID: <20010407231459.D36393@www3.pacific-pages.com> Reply-To: David Banning References: <20010407063916.8207.qmail@web13308.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010407063916.8207.qmail@web13308.mail.yahoo.com>; from kgbsoft@yahoo.com on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:39:16PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:39:16PM -0700, Bill Barnes wrote: > Hello All: > > General question - is the linux mode specific to a > linux version, e.g., 2.0.x+, 2.2.x+. or is it > transparent? I'm just am amatuer in this but having some experience running Linux stuff under FreeBSD it seems to me that if you have a program which requires a specific version of Linux it would have more to do with the libraries than the kernel. > > To be specific - 'Panther' from Prolifics ( > www.possl.org ) lists RedHat 6.0 and SuSE 6.4 as > supported platforms and maybe others. It requires > Open Motif 2.1.30. I would expect it to be a problem > on SuSE 7.1. > It is open source so could be compiled, I suppose, for > FreeBSD? I would expect so.. I have installed a number of applications which are not in the FreeBSD ports. They seemed to compile and install without too many problems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message