From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 22:00:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EAB8106567A for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from smtp.mel.people.net.au (smtp.mel.people.net.au [218.214.17.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 415C98FC16 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:00:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: (qmail 16244 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2008 21:59:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blizzard.dnsalias.org) (218.215.144.151) by smtp.mel.people.net.au with SMTP; 23 Sep 2008 21:59:48 -0000 Received: by blizzard.dnsalias.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9D30F17091; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:00:00 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:00:00 +1000 From: andrew clarke To: Grant Peel Message-ID: <20080923220000.GA82879@ozzmosis.com> References: <8C1536C109064AD5A92F8609916AB2CB@GRANT> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8C1536C109064AD5A92F8609916AB2CB@GRANT> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server - Linux Compat X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:00:11 -0000 On Tue 2008-09-23 17:38:57 UTC-0400, Grant Peel (gpeel@thenetnow.com) wrote: > When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for > the first time, I enabled linux compatability ... > > Each build since, I have enabled it ... > > So not I am at the point of asking myself why? You only need to enable the Linux ABI module if you're running Linux binaries. On a server, this would be fairly uncommon. On a desktop machine you may decide that (for example) for whatever reason, the FreeBSD port of Firefox (www/firefox) is not working properly for you, so you might like to run the Linux binary of Firefox (www/linux-firefox) under FreeBSD's Linux ABI. But even that situation is probably fairly rare. > All I run is webservers and namesrvers, you know, Bind, Apache, Mysql, > vmpop3d, PHP, Exim and shh... These have all been ported to FreeBSD. They are built from the Ports tree as FreeBSD binaries and run natively. > not to mention a few utils, ipa, ipfw etc. I'm not sure what ipa is, but ipfw is supplied with the FreeBSD base system as a native FreeBSD binary, as you can tell from the following command: $ file /sbin/ipfw /sbin/ipfw: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.3, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped