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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD Date: 1 Dec 1995 21:21:55 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <49nrlj$mq9@times.tfs.com> References: <30BC9A25.485989E8@sun.felk.cvut.cz> <49kk69$6es@zuul.nmti.com> <49n6n7$9qc@access4.digex.net> <49nk7t$fpc@atlas.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <49nk7t$fpc@atlas.fwi.uva.nl>, Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl> wrote: >dcmyers@access4.digex.net (David Myers) writes: : :>I've heard that FreeBSD supports some kind of Linux emulation mode...How :>good is it, and does NetBSD support this as well? I am preparing to buy a :>Pentium system for UNIX, and would much rather stay with BSD, but Linux :>seems to have all the support. And, does either BSD support both the ELF :>and a.out Linux executable formats? : :Linux emulation support was added to NetBSD in february; FreeBSD added :it a couple of months later. The NetBSD (i386) Linux emulation support :is pretty complete: it supports the ELF format and also does goodies :like running SVGAlib binaries. I don't think the FreeBSD Linux emulation :does the latter two things. : :What isn't in the NetBSD Linux emulation is sound support, but it's high :on my list of things to do. Though Amancio has doom (linux) playing under FreeBSD WITH sound.. : julian