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#! rnews 2065 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 19:48:03 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32F68743.2781E494@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c39sk$ddl@troma.rv.tis.com> <5c8jlm$50u@cynic.portal.ca> <m23evrulla.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <5cdqos$e6k@camel1.mindspring.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> <32F378FC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <slrn5ekm26.5ml.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156025 comp.os.linux.advocacy:82321 comp.os.linux.setup:95372 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2222 Roberto Alsina wrote: >would have a great FreeBSD emulator (because it is easy to do, due to > >Linux's superior platform.) One reason that FreeBSD is cool, is because > >it can ENCOMPASS what Linux does. (Modulo some driver support, etc.) > > > >John > > > > > > But what would you run under that emulator? What's that FreeBSD program > that has no Linux version? > > If I recall right, one of the main reasons to provide the Linux aout > emulator on FreeBSD was so that doom would run, and Quake was one of the > reasons for the ELF version? > There are other applications also, commerical and otherwise that our BSDI and Linux emulators can run. Frankly, it is just *nice* to be able to run a full spectrum of applications from various OSes. For a similar reason, we support read/write of EXT2FS (mostly for upgrades from Linux.) John