Running Linux Apps With FreeBSD 7.0

[Leon Goldstein]

Andrew Gould wrote:

> <snip>
> 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

I got WP 8.1 running under 5.3; I have a how-to if anyone is interested.
I understand that FreeBSD 6.x and higher use Fedora 6 Linux libs, and 
that will make things a bit more complicated since that version lacks 
the libc5 support WP8/8.1 needs.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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