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List:       viavoice
Subject:    Re: ViaVoice-DL: ViaVoice for Linux
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Date:       1999-07-19 19:37:51
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We run linux applications on FreeBSD all the time. The emulation layer is very
thin -- we just trap the system calls and repackage the syscalls to native
freebsd calls.

Now if we can do that then I expect that it should be trivial for other linux 
distributions
to run ViaVoice's sdk. The only gotcha is the kernel  32 bit signals vs 64 
signals which
ViaVoice was compiled against -- a real bummer for me for otherwise I would had
ViaVoice running on FreeBSD 8)

Say does anyone have any experience with SB Live with ViaVoice on rhl 6.0?
The latest SB Live sound driver from Creative Labs supports rhl 6.0.



	Enjoy


> 
> > 
> > Second of all, a beef i have had with IBM for quite a while is the
> > narrowness of the platforms they code on.  The short answer is that "yes
> > you MUST have redhat".  
> 
> Using RHL really isn't so very painful, and RHL 6 with gnome is getting 
> quite good: secoond only to OS/2 in my view.
> 
> 
> > 
> > I would like to know why the code doesn't ever get statically linked
> > though?  Any comments here?
> 
> I think 40 Mb is quite enough to download through my modem. Don't you?
> 
> Add in glibc, motif and whatever else, and it would be approaching DB2 
> proportions.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
> http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
> Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.
> 
> 

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 Amancio Hasty
 hasty@rah.star-gate.com

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