From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Apr 19 19:17:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10817 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.doit.wisc.edu (mail1.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.9.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA10776 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:17:34 GMT (envelope-from nkauer@students.wisc.edu) Received: from [128.104.222.29] by mail1.doit.wisc.edu id VAA12328 (8.8.6/50); Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:17:30 -0500 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:22:53 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD6BD9.50370420.nkauer@students.wisc.edu> From: Nikolas Kauer To: "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: FreeBSD and Linux Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:22:52 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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.) --------------------------------------- Nikolas Kauer, kauer@pheno.physics.wisc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message