On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Tom Bartol wrote:
>
> I absolutely agree with Jordan on this point. I'm having an increasingly
> hard time keeping our lab running FreeBSD over Linux due to pressure from
> higher-ups who aren't in the technical trenches with me and who don't
> understand the very good technical reasons I have for running FreeBSD
> here. One constant sticking point is the linux compatibility module. The
> higher-ups see the word "emulator" and all manner of warning messages go
> off in their uninformed heads.
>
> In a previous e-mail on this or a related thread I saw the term:
>
> "Linux image activator"
>
> or something close to this pass by. I think this term gave me a much
> closer feeling to what I imagine is really going on the the "linuxulator"
> than the term "emulator" and all its baggage. So we could name it the
> "Linux image activator" or "Lin-Axe" or some such...
I'd just like to have it described as running a program in "linux mode"
In Linux mode, FreeBSD appears exactly a s alinux muchine would to a Linux
program and the program can run un-modified.
(Now that Red Hat has a market capitialisation of 5Billion$ there will be
a lot more linux stuff available)
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