From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 13 11:27:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id B294515289; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:27:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A48BC1CD584; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:27:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: mariusz Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 4.0 and Linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, mariusz wrote: > What depth of FreeBSD's support for Linux applications under > FreeBSD 4.0? Pretty good - most things run without problems. But, the only definitive answer is "try it and see". > Does the support comply with our current requirements for Linux?: > > minimum kernel version: 2.0.34 We don't implement the Linux kernel as a whole; it's the API which is implemented in FreeBSD's Linux mode (i.e. system calls). There aren't many differences in this regard between the linux kernel versions. > minimum glibc version: 2.0.7-19 The linux-base port currently installs glibc-2.0.7-29, but you're free to add/remove RPMs as you see fit, just as with linux :-) Kris ---- XOR for AES -- join the campaign! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message