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OpenBSD's Red Hat Compatibility Package Updated

Posted by timothy on from the yep-that-icon dept.

Dan writes "Jason Ish has updated the redhat/base OpenBSD port from Red Hat 6.2 to Red Hat 8.0. The email note is a few days old, but the port seems to have been committed yesterday. So far he has tested with Opera and Netscape. If you run any Linux apps on OpenBSD, you are encouraged to test these commits and provide feedback. (Several people have reported success running Opera 6.12, Opera7 with some tweaks, and Netscape)."

27 comments

  1. Good News Hopefully by evilviper · · Score: 5, Informative

    The only problem I've had, using OpenBSD as my desktop, is that RealPlayer for Linux froze whenever it would try to access the network. Strangely enough, this was not a problem as of 3.0, but only came into effect after.

    Since RealPlayer and Opera had the same basic problems, I think it's safe to assume RealPlayer should be working once again... I've grabbed the latest port, and I'll be trying it soon. I'll reply to this once I can give first-hand answers.

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    1. Re:Good News Hopefully by evilviper · · Score: 1

      Yup, compiled the port, and RealPlayer can finally play network streams (again).

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    2. Re:Good News Hopefully by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you're going to quote Theo in your signature, you might as well use the proper capitalization in his name. It's Theo de Raadt with a lowercase 'd'.

    3. Re:Good News Hopefully by evilviper · · Score: 1
      openbsd is far behind when compared to lacking especially for dekstop, and in server as well, but you breed of idioy nongs continue to advocate it.

      Well Mr. Anonymous Troll, I am not "advocating" OpenBSD by any means... I *use* OpenBSD on several of my workstations (including my notebook), as well as numerous servers.
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    4. Re:Good News Hopefully by evilviper · · Score: 1

      Fixed it.

      BTW, it's not that I didn't know that, it's just that I have a habbit of capitalizing, and my preferences are sent so I don't see sigs, so I didn't notice.

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  2. ahhhh by thanjee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    8.0 - they are getting ahead!

    FreeBSD has only got 7.1 ported. We have to do something :) Actually the only time I have ever used linux compat was to install a few Loki games, which I don't even have time for now anyway :)

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    1. Re:ahhhh by __past__ · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Scince a week or two, you can also use Debian instead of Redhat on FreeBSD. This is obviously way cooler than a less outdated version of RH. Take that, Puffy! ;-)

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  3. Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wordperfect 8 for Linux didn't work for me with the new port (Realplayer problems were not solved for me either oddly enough..) Can anyone confirm this??

  4. Re:THEO DOESN"T NEED YOUR SHIT by evilviper · · Score: 1

    So... Stating, after the fact, that OpenBSD previously did not have a feature, which it now does, is what you would consider "BITCHING"?

    In that case, why don't you stop bitching about comments on slashdot, and post some good ones of your own?

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  5. Still obsolete! by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 1

    I hope you realize that RH is now up to 9.0.

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    1. Re:Still obsolete! by rf0 · · Score: 1

      Just because its not cutting edge doesn't mean that you can't get apps that won't do what you want

      Rus

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    2. Re:Still obsolete! by Build6 · · Score: 1


      I hope you realize that RH is now up to 9.0.

      Erm. I can't figure out if this was meant to be funny. Was it?

  6. What about Opera and Java? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I am trying this linux emu. with the 3.3-current ELF on an i386 and it works great, in fact I have not seen anything that I have tried from the ports give any trouble. Opera, MagicPoint, acroread so far.

    But what does it take to get Java and Javascript to work under Opera? Use a linux emulation Java (doesn't look like it is up to the 8.0 emulation yet in ports) or a native Java? I'm used to Netscape and I have upgraded on another PC so many times I can't recall what I did if anything to get Java working.

    Oh and BTW, 24 posts and the next two stories have probably 300 together. I never did like driving in the traffic.