Subject: Re: Linux Compatibility?
To: Bill Dorsey <dorsey@lila.com>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/28/2001 14:41:27
"Bill Dorsey" <dorsey@lila.com> writes:

> Are there any plans to update compat_linux to work on the Alpha?  Seems like
> this would be a real plus for a number of NetBSD/Alpha users as it would
> allow us to use Compaq's C/C++ compilers which offer vastly superior
> performance to egcs.  Perhaps more importantly, they will allow us to run
> Compaq's JRE which will open up the possibility of running Java programs on
> NetBSD/Alpha for the first time (kaffe doesn't even compile last time I
> tried on NetBSD 1.5.1, and it's too old to be very interesting anyway).

I can't speak to the state of linux compat on the alpha, as I've never
tried it, but are there interesting Linux/Alpha applications that
don't also exist as OSF1/Tru64 applications? Our emulation of that is
pretty good.

        - Nathan