Re: emul.linux on amd64

2014-09-12 Thread tekk
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 05:09:44PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > Unlike many OSs OpenBSD amd64 is true 64 bit operating system so even > running native i386 binaries on amd64 > is not possible. IIRC there was extensive discussion many years ago > Predrag This isn't actually what I'm interes

Re: emul.linux on amd64

2014-09-09 Thread Matti Karnaattu
>Sure running Oracle Java or MATLAB on >OpenBSD would be nice but that is not OpenBSD issue but rather Oracle >and MathWorks business decisions. There is OpenJDK is open source: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/bsd-port/ To get companies interested to develop binaries for OpenBSD, that will requi

Re: emul.linux on amd64

2014-09-09 Thread Predrag Punosevac
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:49 PM, tekk wrote: > I know that at least in 2004 it was considered to be unreasonable > to try to get i386 linux applications working on amd64 openbsd through > emul.linux, but how much work would be involved to get amd64 linux > apps working? Presumably it wouldn't qu

Re: emul.linux on amd64

2014-09-08 Thread Philip Guenther
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:49 PM, tekk wrote: > I know that at least in 2004 it was considered to be unreasonable to try to > get i386 linux applications working on amd64 openbsd through emul.linux, but > how much work would be involved to get amd64 linux apps working? Presumably > it wouldn't qu

emul.linux on amd64

2014-09-08 Thread tekk
I know that at least in 2004 it was considered to be unreasonable to try to get i386 linux applications working on amd64 openbsd through emul.linux, but how much work would be involved to get amd64 linux apps working? Presumably it wouldn't quite be as easy as just using 64 bit packages instead