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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.lang.java Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!uw-beaver!grizzly.cs.washington.edu!chapman From: chapman@grizzly.cs.washington.edu (Randy Chapman) Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.lang.java X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U of Washington, Seattle Message-ID: <DqH66o.3tu@beaver.cs.washington.edu> References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960425175204.19691C-100000@lint.cisco.com> <4lpu01$mul@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <4lpvjm$f0o@gorgias.uchicago.edu> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: grizzly.cs.washington.edu Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:11:12 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18049 comp.os.linux.misc:99639 comp.unix.bsd.misc:833 comp.lang.java:40682 steve farrell (spfarrel@gorgias.uchicago.edu) wrote: : (another sidenote, generally FreeBSD can run linux binaries, but i guess : the JDK is "too ELF" for the FreeBSD emulator, so it doesn't happen... : presumably it might at some later date, but by that time there will : probably be more interesting alternatives.) Interesting. I know that FreeBSD ran older versions of the Linux JDK. I'd be very curious as to why new ones won't, and what I could do to fix it. --randy : -- : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- : Steve Farrell http://gorgias.uchicago.edu/~spfarrel : Finger me at spfarrel@quads.uchicago.edu for my PGP public key block.