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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