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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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In-Reply-To: <87984.931206684@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 5, 1999  1:31:24 pm"
To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:52:51 +0200 (CEST)
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It seems Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> We need to plan for that and if we're going for true "I can't believe
> it's not Linux" compatability from the application's point of view (to
> parrot a popular Margarine commercial), it seems to make more sense to
> do everything in our power to fool the application into thinking it's
> on a Linux box and not worry so much about what the marketing dept. is
> going to say.  Being able to say that we transparently run Linux
> binaries (with a lot more transparency than we offer now) is, in my
> humble opinion, a far more important goal from both a marketing and a
> technical perspective.

Good point, now we can advertise ourselves as "a better Linux kernel" :)
(sorry couldn't resist)

What happend to the idea of making it possible to drop a FreeBSD kernel
into a Linux system ??

Maybe we should change our name to Freenux :) 

> Speaking of which, I'm also of the opinion that we should add a "Do
> you want to run Linux binaries?" query to sysinstall which results in
> linux emulation being enabled by default and the linux_lib package
> being loaded.  This would make it even more transparent to the
> user.  Any objections?

Nope...

-Søren


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