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From: alewis@iquest.net (Ziggy Stardust)
Subject: Re: Anyone try BMRT Linux binaries on NetBSD-current?
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 18:23:59 GMT
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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