From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 3 22: 4:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBBA14F9F for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 22:04:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA24868; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:34:10 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:34:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kevin Weiss Cc: Nick Seelert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software Message-ID: <20000104163409.F11240@freebie.lemis.com> References: <007f01bf565b$e30c25a0$7d614218@mtpi1.on.wave.home.com> <4.1.20000103232038.0093ca90@pop.jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000103232038.0093ca90@pop.jump.net> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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