Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:56:14 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Tobias Roth <freebsd.lists@fsck.ch>, jahnke@sonatabio.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_8 Message-ID: <18637.34942.755039.51987@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0809141444h5946dee5pf5f7566613f2160f@mail.gmail.com> References: <1221264777.5721.596.camel@pinot> <e71790db0809121800g6a83c49w6442dca48548ab53@mail.gmail.com> <20080913012337.GP15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20080913235120.a456a9a2.nork@FreeBSD.org> <1221317817.1345.5.camel@pinot> <48CCB4F9.90309@fsck.ch> <1221376743.1345.13.camel@pinot> <e71790db0809141444h5946dee5pf5f7566613f2160f@mail.gmail.com>
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Carlos A. M. dos Santos writes: > BTW, I strongly believe that we, FreeBSD users, would be doing > ourselves a big favour by using -- and helping to improve -- open > source software that run natively on FreeBSD. Foreign options may > work here and there but using them will ever be playing catch-up > with Linux and Windows. Unfortunately, there is a quite a bit of stuff which - while I hesitate to say "will never" - is exponentially unlikely to ever have a native counterpart. Using the Linux version, and improving the emulation layer so more things run (correctly and fast), is an acceptable second best. Robert Huff
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