Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:49:43 -0000 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'dustpika@hotmail.com'" <dustpika@hotmail.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD AGP compatible??? Message-ID: <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B3D33A2@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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Dustin Pika wrote: >To whomever feels they can answer either of my questions: > > > >I recently bought a new Pentium II based, Win95 PC. >Since Pentium II's feature AGP instead of PCI, will this >prevent me from being able to run FreeBSD on my PC??? > Don't know much about AGP >Also, since FreeBSD and Linux are both non-commercial packages >of the Unix OS, is software interchangable between them. >I have seen some Linux applications that I am interested in, >but would like to know if they will work in FreeBSD first. > > Sincerly, > Dustin Pika FreeBSD CAN run most Linux programs using the linux emulator. I can even run the Linux Quakeworld client under X on my FreeBSD 2.2.2 system. There seems to be little speed penalty too. Since most non-commercial Linux programs come with source code, you don't even need to emulate, you can just recompile. In general, any unix app supplied as source code should be able to compile and run on ANY unix OS, commercial or non-commercial. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately for us :) ), Linux will not run FreeBSD binaries, however hard you try. Best Regards, Jeff Bond --------------------------------------------------- Jeffery Bond <mailto:jeffbond@compuserve.com> <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jeffbond>; --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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