Re: thank you for the updated compat_linux, rpm2pkg, emulators/suse113*, etc.

[Piotr Adamus <panpiotradamus%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello Pouya,

are you able to maybe check Java on amd64 within Linux emulation? I
mean this package: http://pkgsrc.se/lang/sun-jdk6

Are you able to check the plugin within firefox? As you confirmed
Flash works so that's a good sign.

Thank you.

Kr.

Piotr.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Pouya D. Tafti 
<pouya%san-serriffe.org@localhost> wrote:
> With the relatively recent updates to Linux emulation support in the
> kernel and the new openSUSE 11.3 compat libraries in pkgsrc
> (meta-pkgs/suse113), I can now successfully run the latest version of
> MATLAB (7.11) as well as the latest beta release of Opera 11 (with
> 64-bit Adobe Flash and sound too; sound requires a 64-bit
> libflashsupport binary) under emulation on NetBSD/amd64-current.
> MATLAB even seems to run several times faster on my NetBSD laptop than
> it does on a 2x4-core Mac Pro running Mac OS X 11.6.5, which I use at
> work (based on a single FFT test)!
>
> In the end, it seems that the only "Linux" I can make peace with is
> Linux emulation under NetBSD. :-)
>
> I am extremely grateful for all of this; since I don't know to whom I
> should direct my thanks, I am posting them here.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Pouya
>