From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 21 20:23:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20189 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.exo.net.au (sky-valley.exo.net.au [203.14.230.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20184 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bullseye.apana.org.au!andymac@mail.exo.net.au) Received: by mail.exo.net.au id m0zsJBT-0004oxC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Tue, 22 Dec 1998 15:12:35 +1100 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA08040; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 08:32:40 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 08:31:42 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: "Douglas C. Garrick" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I want native FreeBSD Apps In-Reply-To: <367D8618.D0925CE4@fiw.net> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Douglas C. Garrick wrote: > My real question is however, "What does it take to get application > software vendors to start writing 'native' FreeBSD apps?". I just > tried the Scriptics TCL/TK plugin for Netscape and I haven't got it > working yet. Then I found out that I need to run the linux emulation to > get the plugin to run and that sort of bothers me. I just installed > linux on a laptop and to tell you the truth, I am NOT impressed with > linux. Other than the fact that there is a lot of application support > for linux there seems to be little else worthy of note about linux. > > I did not write to run linux into the ground, instead I wanted to find > out what I can do to prompt the apps vendors to write native FreeBSD > apps. While native apps are desirable, I think that we should retain the perspective to leverage our Linux emulation as a backup strategy: if a company doesn't want to commit to a FreeBSD native version, we need to encourage them to confirm their app runs with the emulator (an example of what happens when this goes awry is StarOffice 5). Given that several people have observed better performance of Linux apps running on FreeBSD emulation, than on Linux on identical/same hardware, I don't see this as a major limitation, provided the app doesn't use facilities we can't or don't yet emulate. As an example for leveraging the emulation, although its a bit early yet for people to have fully exercised the new release, is WordPerfect with early indications that it works very well provided the linux library package is the most recent release. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message