From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jul 31 8:29:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from eel.radicalmedia.com (eel.radicalmedia.com [204.254.246.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113D737BBB0 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:29:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phiber@eel.radicalmedia.com) Received: (from phiber@localhost) by eel.radicalmedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA15283; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:29:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:29:27 -0400 From: Mark Abene To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: em86 Message-ID: <20000731112927.O2866@radicalmedia.com> References: <20000731051254.M2866@radicalmedia.com> <14725.33823.884653.998738@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <14725.33823.884653.998738@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from Andrew Gallatin on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:53:58AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:53:58AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Mark Abene writes: > > While we're on the subject of emulation, is anyone interested in starting > > an effort to port alphalinux's em86 to freebsd/alpha? Methinks the ability > > to run linux/x86 apps on our machines would be a boon. > > > > Comments? > > -Mark > > I've tried running em86 under emulation and saw a problem with the > linux dynamic loader. I then tried it on my linux/alpha test box & > got the same error. > > Now that we can run realplayer, acrobat, netscape, etc, my motivation > for getting em86 working has decreased remarkebly.. > > Drew > Was this the latest 2.2-1 em86? My rationale for getting it to work is for office productivity apps, such as WordPerfect and StarOffice. We're in bad need of such a thing. -Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message