Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:34:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kevin Weiss <kweiss@jump.net> Cc: Nick Seelert <seelertn@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software Message-ID: <20000104163409.F11240@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000103232038.0093ca90@pop.jump.net> References: <007f01bf565b$e30c25a0$7d614218@mtpi1.on.wave.home.com> <4.1.20000103232038.0093ca90@pop.jump.net>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 3 January 2000 at 23:30:02 -0600, Kevin Weiss wrote: > At 09:32 PM 1/3/00 -0500, you wrote: >> >> I was wondering if all the linux software available free of >> charge by download works with FreeBSD unix. Normally, yes. > If not is the software supported for FreeBSD available free of > charge by downloading? We don't supply any Linux software. We just run it. > It's hard to say ALL linux software is able to run on FreeBSD. As > far as I know, FBSD just emulates it. Not in the normal sense of emulation. Userland code runs exactly as written. System calls are a lookalike of Linux code and may show subtle differences. By contrast, emulation usually implies a one-to-many relationship between instructions written and instructions executed, and that's not the case here. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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