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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reali Message-ID: <hastyCwLLyJ.1IM@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <hastyCwDxFz.60u@netcom.com> <35rbnt$6jv@goliat.eik.bme.hu> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 19:54:19 GMT Lines: 42 In article <35rbnt$6jv@goliat.eik.bme.hu> pink@fsz.bme.hu writes: >While thinking about the possible [Net|Free]BSD version of Doom, as an interim >measure, how about trying to write something like "COMPAT_LINUX". > >NetBSD already has four (more or less working) compat options (sunos, ultrix, >svr4, ibcs2) and it has an excellent way of adding more of these. I'm sure >FreeBSD has something similar. > >This would not also give us Doom until ID ports it (hopefully), but >should give an ultimate answer to the Linux or BSD, which is better talk. >Until of course Linux gets a COMPAT_*BSD :-). (No flames please, it's a joke!) > >I'll start reading the Linux docs today! > >PS.: I know it's not *that* easy. Your idea sounds great !! However, I think that spreading the NetBSD or FreeBSD word also now falls into the shoulders of the users. This also includes harrasing, pestering or driving crazy vendors to include support for *BSD systems. Causally browsing on the net, I tend to see linux activists pushing around linux. For instance, in comp.sys.intel, I spotted a headline stating: "Linux rules the net". Yeah, I know that is sounds rediculous. In comp.graphics.raytracing, a couple of the linux activitist where trying to teach the DOS people how can they do ray-tracing using povray and still read news... Also, I tend to see many more linux posters adverstising linux in their signature. Thats just part of it... A couple of months ago, in the "Wire", magazine, I spotted a short article on linux -- it also had a cool linux logo. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, netaudio, tcl/tk, MIME, midi,sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant Home: (415) 495-3046 e-mail hasty@netcom.com