[OT] really?

[Jima]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 09:13:53AM -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > 2. "Fat binary" tools come on the market that will compile an app for
> > i86 and generate a fat binary that will run under both Windows and OS
> > X (and, when that happens, Linux may come along for the ride so that
> > would be good for Linux).
> 
> Probably not Linux. MacOS is built on a BSD kernel which is almost
> linux compatible but won't run the same binaries, plus a windowing
> system (Aqua) that does not run on linux and is NOT open source.
> 
> Linux binaries could easily be accomdated with a translation layer that
> would translate Linux calls to BSD calls, such a layer exisits for
> (under linux) for x86 Solaris directly and the binary standard of x86 UNIX.

 Err, actually, FreeBSD (at least) already has such a translation layer.  
I used it to "run" Linux in a chroot environment on a FreeBSD box in 2001 
or so.  Nice idea, but the developers beat you to it. :)

     Jima