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Re: Linux Executor on FreeBSD?
Andrew C Bulhak (acb@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: Lee Cremeans (cremeans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote:
: : Does anyone know if Linux Executor will run on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
: Being Linux software, no. Linux and FreeBSD are completely different
: systems, with different system call semantics, user/kernel linkage methods,
: binary formats and the like. It may be possible for ARDI to compile
: Executor for FreeBSD relatively easily from the source, but the
: binaries are certainly not interchangeable.
Do you know anything about FreeBSD, or are you just guessing?
Linux and SCO are completely different, yet Linux runs SCO
Wordprefect.. go figure...
Likewise FreeBSD runs the Linux version of Doom...
Download executor and give it a try - I don't know if FreeBSD's linux
emulation is complete enough, but it's worth trying.
Steve
dunham@gdl.msu.edu
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