Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:46:54 -0700 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: terry@lambert.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, jehamby@lightside.com, root@dihelix.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation? Message-ID: <9602290046.AA13427@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <3781.825544043@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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>>>>> "Jordan" == "Jordan K Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes:
>> The situation is not aided by the fact that the BSD camp
>> emulates the Linux ABI sufficiently well that companies are of
>> the opinion that they can save themselves a porting effort.
Jordan> That depends on whether or not you view the UNIX market as
Jordan> one capable of sustaining native versions of all the major
Jordan> players anymore. No good winning a battle if it costs you
Jordan> the war.
Quite right. That's always been the Great False Promise of Unix.
About the only thing you have in common amongst all the versions is
that `ls' is the file/directory listing commmand, and it may display
in multiple columns or in a single column depending as much on vendor
as environment and invocation. Porting efforts are sincere efforts,
indeed!
I like the sound of ``FreeBSD: a better Linux than Linux.''
I'd place the focus on making any i386 executable just run directly.
An installed, out-of-the-box system ought to run installed,
out-of-the-box ibcs2, SCO, Linux, DOS, Windows, what-have-you
executables. No setup. No additional library. No muss. No fuss.
Of course, I live most of the time in my dreams, too.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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