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linux compatible port.
Which port is for Linux emulation??
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You should carefully study Section 9.4 of the FAQ:
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#Interact ...along with the compat_linux(8) manpage. Several of your recent questions are answered in the FAQ. You will save yourself a lot of time & aggravation by taking time now while you are a newbie to familiarize yourself with all of its contents. |
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Obviously in the past developers felt need to have Linux compatibility layer and there is nothing wrong in stating that OpenBSD is mature project with one of the best packaging systems and almost 5000 ports that doesn't need such compatibility anymore. Both of us a familiar with the attitude of OpenBSD community towards Linux binaries. I think and you probably know better than me that bumping up compatibility layer to Fedora core 9 would actually require some serious kernel work. I am not qualified for something like that. In the past week or so there have been so many exciting news from Hackaton. I feel that the work on such compatibility layer by any of developers would be waist of time. That might not be the case in incoming months. By the way the question is already raised on misc@ by Nikolay and it was ignored. My feeling is that the community as a whole is contempt with the fact that OpenBSD will essentially lose Linux compatibility layer in incoming months. My feeling is also that most developers and users generally have the attitude that if one needs Linux specific or Solaris specific application for which only binaries are available that one should run that operating system at least for that specific task. Best, OKO Last edited by Oko; 18th June 2008 at 09:55 AM. |
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Linux emulation has been invaluable, in the past, for things like: JDK build bootstrap, mozilla browsers, soffice, opera-flashplugin. But with the elimination of JDK 1.3-linux as the bootstrap, native ports of mozilla software and openoffice, and with Opera's flashplugin long out-of-date... linux binary compatibility is less critical to OpenBSD's usefulness. |
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hmmm, I got the idea now. Thanks
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By-note: "old Fedfora core".
For both FreeBSD and OpenBSD, the Linux compatibility is|was based on kernel 2.4.* Hence s/old/only one left/ FreeBSD has unblocked 2.6 based compatibility layers lately. (FC6) Call the Linux compatibility a Linux kernel compatibility (and <= 2.6.12 is rather different of >=2.6.24). Alternative for Flash is to run a minimal Linux distro under the qemulator.
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