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From: chapman@grizzly.cs.washington.edu (Randy Chapman)
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD
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steve farrell (spfarrel@gorgias.uchicago.edu) wrote:

: (another sidenote, generally FreeBSD can run linux binaries, but i guess
: the JDK is "too ELF" for the FreeBSD emulator, so it doesn't happen... 
: presumably it might at some later date, but by that time there will 
: probably be more interesting alternatives.)

Interesting.  I know that FreeBSD ran older versions of the Linux JDK.
I'd be very curious as to why new ones won't, and what I could do to
fix it.

--randy

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