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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:22:52 -0500
From:      Nikolas Kauer <nkauer@students.wisc.edu>
To:        "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD and Linux
Message-ID:  <01BD6BD9.50370420.nkauer@students.wisc.edu>

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>From http://www.futuresouth.com/~fullermd/freebsd/bsd/bsdvlinux.14 I
infer that the second edition of "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey
has a paragraph about FreeBSD vs. Linux. (My apologies.)  Why is this
issue so taboo? (Greg: "That's a hot potato. A lot of people get fanatical
about the question. Still, I've just had to write this up for the new edition
of 'The Complete FreeBSD', so here goes [...]")

Being able to run Linux binaries on FreeBSD helps a lot (having commercial
programs in mind).  However, for programmers that want/have to use
commercial (Linux-) compilers in addition to the free GNU compilers, it doesn't 
suffice.  I guess, I end up running FreeBSD (which I love) and Red Hat (which
I need?) on my box, which may not be too bad :)

PS
I'm aware of the port devel/linux_devel.  But, honestly, compiling and
running my own Linux binaries with the help of a substantial amount of Linux
binaries and libraries in FreeBSD's Linux compatibility mode seems somewhat
ridiculous to me. (No offense. It's great that I probably *could* do it after 
all.)

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Nikolas Kauer, kauer@pheno.physics.wisc.edu


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