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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!depot.mro.dec.com!rtnews.rto.dec.com!news From: Lars Hofhansl <lars@hboix1.enet.dec.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: LINUX of BSD? Which one ... Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 13:01:59 +0100 Organization: Digital Equipment GmbH Lines: 20 Message-ID: <315BD137.167E@hboix1.enet.dec.com> References: <4il9vt$ovu@gold.interlog.com> <4ip4om$15c@Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> <4jfqg1$8m1@nntp.snfc21.pbi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hbfsap.hbf.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; OSF1 V3.2 alpha) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.questions:79516 comp.unix.misc:21622 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16303 mich@pbinet.com wrote: > > In <4ip4om$15c@Dortmund.Germany.EU.net>, nerle@pdv.de (Dirk Nerling) writes: > >Btw. You are able to run Linux binaries under FreeBSD... > > You must forgive me if I am a bit increadulous after reading this statement. Is this > true? I've been reading up on this stuff in prep for setting up my own x86 BSD > system and if this is true it would be sweet. But seems like I've read the opposite > elswhere. You can run almost every a.out-Linux-program (including Linux-Netscape !). The ELF stuff is not (yet) running, though (I think there is another restriction concering qmagic, omagic, zmagic et al). There are actually some programs which can't run (the svgalib stuff etc). I repeat : On my system I can almost every a.out-Linux program... Lars