4 Aug
2017
4 Aug
'17
8 p.m.
Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
Remember when Linux had a layer to run x86 BSD binaries? Now freebsd can run linux binaries instead. I think it was called iBCS back in the day.
It was, and led to TLUG's finest moment, way back when Linux was new and there was only one book about it and O'Reilly sent the author (Matt Welsh, IIRC) on the speech circuit. He was standing up in Toronto and got to iBCS and how you could use a Linux system to run all your commercial Unix binaries and someone in the front row kept interrupting with minor corrections. Finally Matt got fed up and declared "_I_ wrote the book" to which Drew Sullivan replied, "And I wrote the kernel code!" -- Anthony de Boer