Running Linux Apps With FreeBSD 7.0

[Andrew Gould]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Leon Goldstein
> <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Is anyone on the list using FreeBSD?  I dabbled with an earlier version
> >  (6.1) and was sufficiently impressed to have another go at it with 7.0
> >  beta, which  supports  SMP.  There are some essential Linux apps, e.g.
> >  WP8.1, I would like to use.
> >
>
> I haven't tried FreeBSD in about 5+ years. At that time Linux apps
> (KDE for example) seemed to be much peppier than on a real Linux box.
>
> --
> Collins Richey
>

I'm currently running FreeBSD 6.3.  I rely on FreeBSD to run my database and
web servers; but I've never been too excited about running Linux apps on
FreeBSD.   It may have been my selection of Linux apps; but I kept running
in the problem that the dependencies weren't installed with the base linux
compatibility package.  The FreeBSD handbook lists WordPerfect as one of the
applications that should work without trouble, so your luck may be very
different than mine.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html

Andrew Gould
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