Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:52:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: imp@harmony.village.org, blaz@gold.amis.net, marcel@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_misc.c Message-ID: <199907052052.WAA55831@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <87984.931206684@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 5, 1999 1:31:24 pm"
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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