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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
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References: <30BC9A25.485989E8@sun.felk.cvut.cz> <49kk69$6es@zuul.nmti.com> <49n6n7$9qc@access4.digex.net> <49nk7t$fpc@atlas.fwi.uva.nl>
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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