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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can I run Linux executables on FreeBSD 2.0.5 ? Date: 1 Sep 1995 05:01:57 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <426445$kgp@reason.cdrom.com> References: <ian.809878168@panorama.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: ian@panorama.com X-URL: news:ian.809878168@panorama.demon.co.uk ian@panorama.com ( Ian Edwards ) wrote: >I have a database program which was built with Linux (kernel 1.2.1) >and I want to run it on PC hardware (arriving soon). Having read about >FreeBSD and Linux I would prefer to run it on FreeBSD which I thought >could run Linux and SCO binaries. However I have just got the FreeBSD CD >and the documentation on 'linux-emu' says it is not a generic emulator, >so will the database run on FreeBSD 2.0.5 ? Well, a "generic emulator" is something that's pretty hard to define. If it runs every single possible binary then I'd say it's a very *complete* emulation, thoughthat's naturally always going to be something of a moving target. The FreeBSD emulation of Linux isn't currently complete in that sense, but it's capable of running a number of Linux binaries. We also have more advanced emulation currently in BETA testing. The only way to know for sure is to try your particular database and see! -- Jordan