From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 28 14:31:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA21387 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:31:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21380 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:31:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0truOq-0009Z7C; Wed, 28 Feb 96 14:31 PST Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:31:07 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: invalid opcode cc: "Amancio Hasty Jr." , David Langford , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, invalid opcode wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > > heard of, and most of us sound (to a lesser extend) like FreeBSD fanatics > > ---Jake > > I don't agree with this, we are actually trying to support Linux, if we > were fanatics, we would say: ext2fs, linux emulation, screw that shit. > Also, does Linux have any FreeBSD emulators? I'm saying that we're "fanatics" by actively encouraging people to run FreeBSD rather than Linux, otherwise we would just say, "Go ahead and run Linux. Our operating system isn't any better." But we don't say that, do we? :-) By supporting Linux FS and emulation, it is only a short-term solution to encourage former Linux providers to migrate over to FreeBSD with a minimum of pain. Also, the Linux emulation originally started so we could play Linux DOOM (hmmm!) and is still useful for running binary-only apps that have no FreeBSD port. We are supporting Linux, in other words, for migration purposes, and because they have more binaries. That explains why we can run BSDI but not NetBSD binaries (popularity), and why NetBSD CAN run FreeBSD binaries! ---Jake