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From: ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar (Roberto Alsina)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 3 Feb 1997 16:34:39 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional de San Luis - Argentina
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In article <32F378FC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>, John S. Dyson wrote:
>
>>
>> Just for all those BSD advocates out there.. if BSD is so much more
>> superior than Linux, how come someone bothered to make Linux binaries
>> executable on FreeBSD?
>>
>Why not? there are titles for Linux out there that it is convienient
>to run on FreeBSD. BTW, if Linux was so much superior to FreeBSD, Linux
>would have a great FreeBSD emulator (because it is easy to do, due to
>Linux's superior platform.) One reason that FreeBSD is cool, is because
>it can ENCOMPASS what Linux does. (Modulo some driver support, etc.)
>
>John
>
>
But what would you run under that emulator? What's that FreeBSD program
that has no Linux version?
If I recall right, one of the main reasons to provide the Linux aout
emulator on FreeBSD was so that doom would run, and Quake was one of the
reasons for the ELF version?
Regards.
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