Subject: Re: Acrobat On NetBSD
To: Jeff Flowers <jeffrey@jeffreyf.net>
From: Dr. Rene Hexel <rh@cit.gu.edu.au>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/29/2002 10:59:12
On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 10:36  AM, Jeff Flowers wrote:

> 1. Will this require a lot of configuration or will it work out of the 
> box?

   It will work pretty much out of the box.  If you are using your own
non-GENERIC kernel, you need to make sure it has COMPAT_LINUX enabled.

> 2. How much disk space will this require?

   The whole bunch of Linux libraries takes about 100 MB of disk space.

> 3. Is Linux emulation pretty fast?

   Yes.  The whole 'emulation' simply consists of having Linux-compatible
system calls.  This means that there should not be any noticeable speed
difference between native and 'emulated' programs.

> 4. Any gotchas I should know ahead of time?

   If you are using NetBSD-1.6 or -current you can use the 'suse_*'
packages.  For NetBSD-1.5.x or earlier you need the 'suse64_*' versions.

   After installing these packages, make sure /emul/linux is actually
a soft link to /usr/pkg/emul/linux (or wherever you install your
packages).

   Cheers
       ,
    Rene