Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 18:03:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, root@dihelix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation? Message-ID: <199602290103.SAA09633@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960228163214.15042A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Feb 28, 96 04:54:15 pm
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> Just like OS/2 > claimed to be "a better DOS than DOS", why can't we make the (justified > once we get ELF) claim of "a better Linux than Linux?" Uh, OS/2 hasn't been very successful compared to DOS (or Win95). > Okay, granted. But as I said, if it already runs fine on FreeBSD through > binary emulation, then what do you gain by demanding a FreeBSD-native > port? Sure, it'd be nice, but I know I'd rather be able to run a Linux > version than have no version at all! Because it will have been regression tested on Linux but not on BSD. Because a commercial software vendor does not typically offer support for an OS running their product in an emulation environment. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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