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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reality Message-ID: <hastyCwv7AD.6JB@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <4iUriYm00iV9A=Zn1C@andrew.cmu.edu> <1994Sep28.015643.4667@umr.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 00:13:25 GMT Lines: 51 In article <1994Sep28.015643.4667@umr.edu> dhickman@rocket.cc.umr.edu (David H Hickman ) writes: >Alex R.N. Wetmore (aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: >: From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) >: >In article <35rbnt$6jv@goliat.eik.bme.hu> pink@fsz.bme.hu writes: >: >>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. > >: I think support for Linux binaries would be great. > >then run linux.... god. why do you guys want all of this compatability when if you run the realthing it is better... cause Linux supports bsd stuff along with sco and etc. This would be alright if it didn't required installing linux... > >if bsd is so damn good why hasn't doom been ported to it.... if i remember corectly bsd sure has been around longer than linux. Hell doom has even portted to windoze, and mac. Because David Taylor runs linux and not FreeBSD on his home. > > >: >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. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >ok how does this not be true.... it may not rule the net. but it is getting more and more popular. No reason why FreeBSD can not be equally popular or more so... >: >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... >and what is wrong with this.... hell i can play doom and do ray tracing in the backgound. > Nothing is wrong in this picture except that you are running linux and you miss my point on a way to spread the news of FreeBSD in a meaningful and useful fashion. Also the target audience of this posting was the *BSD users and not linux users. If I had wanted the opinion of linux users I would have cross-posted to the linux newsgroup or to which ever OS you are running. 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