From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 22 13:25:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A3D1562E for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:25:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA00449; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:25:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:25:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner Reply-To: Jeremy Shaffner To: Bob.Sullivan@MSNBC.com, sgd@tfm.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: MSNBC Article Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I was reading the article at http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp and was suprised to see: No matter, says Diercouff. Soon, the various BSD distributions will be able to run Linux applications, including office productivity suites such as StarOffice. Linux emulation has been available for FreeBSD via kernel modules for a good long time. I run many Linux applications, including StarOffice and WordPerfect under Linux emulation on FreeBSD. The second sentence on the OpenBSD homepage says "OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSDI, SunOS, and HPUX." I don't know about NetBSD and BSDI but it wouldn't be hard to find out. A little bit of research goes a long way. And since most software for Linux is open source, it can usually be compiled on most any other system as well. The FreeBSD ports system used by FreeBSD (shared with OpenBSD) currently has 2502 applications (http://www.freebsd.org/ports/master-index.html), many of which are originally Linux programs. I realize this point is a bit more technical than the article, but it matters in the eyes of those who wouldn't know otherwise. Was this a misquote? Did Stephen forget himself? Did Mr. Sullivan just plain get it wrong? Alot of people will read this article and those who would switch, or choose *BSD over Linux as their first Unix system, won't because of this inaccuracy. Is it possible to correct this before further damage is done? Otherwise it was a good article. Thankyou for your time. -=========================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet, Regional Internet Services System Administrator 7 Area Codes in Chicagoland and NW Indiana jer@jorsm.com 100Mbps+ Connectivity, 56K-DS3, V.90, ISDN support@jorsm.com Quality Service, Affordable Prices http://www.jorsm.com Serving Gov, Biz, Indivds Since 1995 -=========================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message