From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 1 22:27:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD5137B674 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA16705; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 23:27:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000701232206.04940100@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 23:27:21 -0600 To: Dann Lunsford , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows)) In-Reply-To: <20000701124530.A36442@greycat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:45 PM 7/1/2000, Dann Lunsford wrote: >I've been thinking about the Linuxulator a bit lately (trying to get a >DVD player from Linux on my FreeBSD laptop), and the analogy in $SUBJECT >hit me. It has always seemed to me that one of the worst things that >IBM did was make the Windoze subsystem of OS/2 too good; there was no >need for anyone to produce OS/2 stuff, since OS/2 people could simply >use the Windoze version of Product X (I can recall being told *exactly* >this from >10 vendors). This despite the fact that native versions >would perform better, be able to have more features, etc. Dann: I raised this issue several a few years ago, and believe you have a point. Many vendors already tell me that FreeBSD ports of the products are not in the works and tell me to use the Linux versions of their products instead. (Of course, they won't support them if something goes wrong, but that's another story.) The "Linuxulator" will make it more difficult for the BSDs, and FreeBSD in particular, to rise to prominence. I'm doing what I can to get them there, and the results are beginning to show (despite the doubts expressed by a few naysayers on this and other mailing lists). But there's no question that you're right: to emulate a stronger competitor is to jeopardize one's chances of getting native ports. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message