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Re: TWO new versions of FreeBSD released

To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@ican.net>
Subject: Re: TWO new versions of FreeBSD released
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 23:40:59 -0700
Cc: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO <am-info@essential.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981108011600.4716D-100000@red.prv>
References: <4.1.19981107091804.04791390@127.0.0.1>

At 01:17 AM 11/8/98 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:

>Cool!  One thing I don't understand though is why one would want
>to run emulated Linux binaries when one can simply recompile them
>in BSD, no?

No. A lot of Linux programs use Linux-specific system calls and won't
compile on anything else. Gotta use Linux emulation even if source
is available.... Unless you want to do a port.

--Brett

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- TWO new versions of FreeBSD released
  - From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
- Re: TWO new versions of FreeBSD released
  - From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@ican.net>

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