From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 3:11:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0735D37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 03:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (host217-39-25-245.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.39.25.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5708743E6D for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 03:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danielby@home.slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17U2pG-0006oo-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:11:30 +0100 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:11:30 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running Linux programs under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020715101130.GB25712@catflap.home.slightlystrange.or> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020715113129.01283428@192.96.48.11> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020715113129.01283428@192.96.48.11> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:37:18AM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > Hi List > > What exactly are the implications of running linux programs eg. Oracle, SAP > for Linux on FreeBSD ? Does FreeBSD emulate linux, is this safe and what > about performance ? Could someone possibly direct me to more specifics on > how FreeBSD handles Linux compatibility please? Check out chapter 20 of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html It seems to cover all your questions. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message