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- 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?
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- : 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.
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- Do you know anything about FreeBSD, or are you just guessing?
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- Linux and SCO are completely different, yet Linux runs SCO
- Wordprefect.. go figure...
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- Likewise FreeBSD runs the Linux version of Doom...
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- Download executor and give it a try - I don't know if FreeBSD's linux
- emulation is complete enough, but it's worth trying.
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- Steve
- dunham@gdl.msu.edu
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