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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!dorite!news From: alewis@iquest.net (Ziggy Stardust) Subject: Re: Anyone try BMRT Linux binaries on NetBSD-current? Message-ID: <DDo5vs.5E3@iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: IQuest Network Services X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 References: <412vin$s0k@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> <414tnq$j29@carol.fwi.uva.nl> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 18:23:59 GMT Lines: 28 frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) wrote: >williams@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams) writes: >>I am currently running Linux at home instead of NetBSD solely because I >>want to run Larry Gritz's BMRT (Blue Moon Rendering Tools), a >>shareware, Renderman compliant rendering package. Larry only >>distributes binaries and the only Unix-on-PC-clone binaries available >>are for Linux. I would very much like to run NetBSD-current instead of >>Linux, but before I switch, I'd like to be sure that BMRT will run >>under the NetBSD Linux compatibility mode. So, has anyone tried this? >BMRT works fine for me, I just tried it out on NetBSD-current (16 Aug). For >setting up a Linux emulation environment on NetBSD-current, see the >compat_linux(8) manual page, in this case an important thing to remember >is that you have to copy some shared libs (libc, libm, libgr, libX11). >- Frank >-- This may be a faq thing, but what is this 'compatiblity' stuff all about? Ive been with teh linux camp since the beginnning, but want to switch to something more stable..( and multi platform ) though i cant loose some of the binaries ive got....thanks.. Ziggy