On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:07:58PM -0500, Frank DeChellis wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Where can I find out what the current version of emulation is in NetBSD.  I
> am not sure if I asked this correctly...
> 
> If I install the latest emulators/freebsd_lib what version of FreeBSD am I
> emulating?
> 
> How about the latest Linux?  Is it compatible with RedHat?  For the best
> Linux emulation, what packages would you install?
> 
> Right now I have:
> suse_base-7.3nb4    Linux compatibility package
> suse_compat-7.3     Linux compatibility package with old shared libraries
> suse_x11-7.3nb2     Linux compatibility package for X11 binaries
> 
> The package I am looking to run requires either FreeBSD 4.8 or RedHat Linux
> 8.0

Did you try it with the suse_* packages ? I suspect RedHat8 is more or less
equivalent to suse7.
For freebsd, it looks like freebsd_lib is still at 2.2.7. You could try
installing the 4.8 libraries by hand and see what happens.

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