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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: LINUX of BSD? Which one ...
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 17:50:46 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: mich@pbinet.com
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mich@pbinet.com wrote:
>
> In <4ip4om$15c@Dortmund.Germany.EU.net>, nerle@pdv.de (Dirk Nerling) writes:
> >Btw. You are able to run Linux binaries under FreeBSD...
>
> You must forgive me if I am a bit increadulous after reading this statement. Is this
> true? I've been reading up on this stuff in prep for setting up my own x86 BSD
> system and if this is true it would be sweet. But seems like I've read the opposite
> elswhere.
You read incorrectly elsewhere then.. FreeBSD has supported a large
subset of Linux a.out apps (well, you can't run `ps' and such, but then
did you expect to be able to? :-) for a long time, and ELF support
recently entered the fray in our 2.2 line. We can run everything from
Linux DOOM and ABUSE to Linux version of Netscape with JAVA. Not that
the latter is as useful as it used to be since Netscape has now released
netscape 3.0b2 ("Atlas") for BSDI which also works just great right out
of the box.
--
- Jordan Hubbard
President, FreeBSD Project