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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!news From: Greg Dearing <gdearing@elanor.acs.ohio-state.edu> 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: 14 Feb 1997 16:10:45 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 30 Message-ID: <87sp2z8562.fsf@elanor.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c39sk$ddl@troma.rv.tis.com> <5c8jlm$50u@cynic.portal.ca> <m23evrulla.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <5cdqos$e6k@camel1.mindspring.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970201040446.16129A-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu> <5l20akqffh.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: dearing.2@osu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: ts27-6.homenet.ohio-state.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158384 comp.os.linux.networking:68434 comp.os.linux.setup:97299 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5999 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2495 Stefan Monnier <monnier+/news@tequila.cs.yale.edu> writes: > > "Kueh, Anthony" <kueh@students.uiuc.edu> writes: > > 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? > > Yeah right, keep on babbling and come back when you'll have tried to > apply your reasoning to wine/dosemu and such softs. Reasoning: Dos and Windows suck, but they have software which is not available on Linux which I might want to run. Therefore, dosemu and wine are useful. FreeBSD does not suck, but I can't think of any FreeBSD software I might want to run which isn't already natively available for Linux. Therefore, why waste my time writing a FreeBSD emulator? Don't get me wrong, I think FreeBSD is a cool operating system. But as long as this thread has went, all of the FreeBSD people have avoided the basic question that's been asked over and over. What the heck would I do with a FreeBSD emulator? :) -- Greg Dearing Email: dearing.2@osu.edu