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To: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi@bsi.com.br>
cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, compint@host.igs.net
Subject: Re: Your 3D product (fwd) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Feb 1996 20:59:48 GMT."
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 05:53:04 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> It seems FreeBSD can run Linux binaries. Our linux version is
> statiscally linked (Linux 1.2.1 X11R6).  Do you think it will
> run under FreeBSD?

It appears to run just fine.  I've tried all the major functions that
are supported in the stock Linux version and I had no trouble with any
of them - not even any of the warning messages that our emulator
sometimes spits out.

I'll say that I'd be hard pressed to think of a convincing reason to
do a FreeBSD port when the Linux one works this well.  Perhaps some
notation could be made saying that FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE or later can
run this in emulation mode?

Of course, should these folks decide to start doing motion capture
directly from one of our supported frame grabber cards, well, that the
might require some native support! :-)

					Jordan