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From: chrisg@igwe.vub.ac.be (Chris Gruwier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux emulation (Re: Bravo, Soeren Schmidt!)
Date: 12 Sep 1995 21:07:55 GMT
Organization: Brussels Free Universities VUB/ULB
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Brian Tao (taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw) wrote:
: In article <42fph9$qe6@kadath.zeitgeist.net>, Amancio Hasty, Jr. <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote:
: >
: >Where is the freebsd version of abuse??

:     Instead of expending valuable life points trying to convince
: companies producing Linux software to port them to FreeBSD, we should
: concentrate on improving FreeBSD's Linux binary compatibility.  The
: iBSC2 compatibility is already good enough to run WordPerfect under X
: (something the Linux folks are still waiting for).  

Wordperfect is running for a long time under linux.. (X and text)

Anyway who needs ibcs, if there's a native wordperfect for linux

Chris