Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:13:50 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Linux distro Message-ID: <20080219151335.E3580@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200802191424.33132.wundram@beenic.net> References: <786348.74605.qm@web51104.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200802191424.33132.wundram@beenic.net>
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>> software without any problems (exception for Linux Kernel 2.6) I can't >> run Linux software on FreeBSD? > > _Running_ Linux software and _being_ Linux(-based) are two completely > different things. FreeBSD runs (most) Linux (and glibc based) software, but > is a completely different (and mostly unrelated) codebase wrt. to the libc > and the kernel. > > The distinction is pretty much the same with Wine: Wine can run Windows > binaries (mostly), but because of that it still isn't Windows. fortunately it isn't both windows and linux.
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