From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 13:24:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05405 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:24:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05394 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:24:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA05907; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:16:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602272116.OAA05907@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Interested in getting Free BSD To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:16:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: jwinter@ptw.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Feb 26, 96 10:20:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > HI I am interested in getting a copy of Free BSD. I am also wondering if > > Linux is comperable to this program. > > In the sense that it's a free UNIX, yes. In the sense that it's the same > variant of UNIX (sysV) then no. FreeBSD will run most commercial Linux binaries (it will not run Linux ELF binaries at present). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.