On 08/04/2017 11:00 PM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > 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!" >
I remember that meeting and I still have my copy of the book "Running Linux", which Matt Welch autographed that night. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
