From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 6 19: 3: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.tesserae.com (freebsd.tesserae.com [209.157.194.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDBFB37BCB3; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:02:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pwiley@cadabra.com) Received: by freebsd.tesserae.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6148F45B; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebsd.tesserae.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7B0442; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:02:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Preston S. Wiley" X-Sender: pwiley@freebsd.tesserae.com To: Brett Glass Cc: David Scheidt , Kris Kennaway , Narvi , Dann Lunsford , chat@FreeBSD.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Emulation (Was: No port of Opera?) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706190244.0483ad70@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > All of this would be a waste of effort compared to writing a *BSD* emulator > that would run on many platforms and get us more native ports. Making a > better Linux emulator is counterproductive. The better Linux emulation is > on BSD, the less likely it is that FreeBSD will get native ports of key > applications. Without Linux compatibility, BSD wouldn't have enough of a desktop user base for a company to even consider a native BSD port. The Linux compatibility was created to draw in users. (i.e. BSD can do everything Linux can, including run its binaries, plus this and this and this) The more users BSD has, the more likely there will be a native BSD port. - Preston To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message