From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 4 22:53:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17330 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 22:53:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17315 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 22:53:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA20011; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:22:39 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA06527; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:22:15 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980805152214.C6348@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:22:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jason C. Wells" , John Barbee Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux emulation References: <71B40CA7B273D0119DBF080009B46D4003E0FD@server5.singular.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason C. Wells on Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 10:19:58PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog 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 On Tuesday, 4 August 1998 at 22:19:58 +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, John Barbee wrote: > >> What is the current state of functionality of linux emulation? >> I'm trying to convince my boss to not use linux and the argument I get >> is that everyone is write stuff for linux. > > Linux emulation works perfectly. I run acrobat, StarOffice, and a few > other applications. To be fair, there are a few rough edges on the Linux emulation. The real problem is that they're not exercised enough to get fixed. ISTR that sound card and DNS support in StarOffice caused problems under some circumstances. Does that work OK for you? If so, is the local machine the name server? On the other hand, Linux emulation is important to us. If anybody can document a bug, I'm sure it'll get fixed pretty quickly. > I use kernel Linux emulation and not kernel module Linux emulation, FWIW. I don't think that makes any difference. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message