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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD
Date: 1 Dec 1995 20:15:09 +0100
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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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.
- Frank
--
Frank van der Linden, frank@fwi.uva.nl
Use NetBSD, it's Unix, it's free and works on:
i386+, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532, DEC Alpha, DEC MIPS, Atari
Work in progress: Vax, Sun4m and a host of others