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Received: from ftp.ardi.com (ftp.ardi.com [204.134.8.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA07726 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 09:13:13 -0800 Received: from ardi.com by ftp.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tN0vU-0007q8n; Tue, 5 Dec 95 10:13 MST Path: sloth.swcp.com!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov!newshost.lanl.gov!ncar!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!msunews!cl-next4!dunham From: dunham@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Steve Dunham) Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor Subject: Re: Linux Executor on FreeBSD? Date: 4 Dec 1995 18:31:54 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <49veqq$18ms@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <49tirv$m66@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <49vas4$1e2@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: cl-next4.cl.msu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: executor@nacm.com X-MailNews-Gateway: From newsgroup comp.emulators.mac.executor Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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