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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Date: 14 Nov 1993 22:48:12 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT
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In article <RDONG.93Nov14170130@chow.mat.jhu.edu>,
Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~} <rdong@playmate.mat.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> I don't want to join the flaming war. My question is: does FreeBSD
>run Solaris binary on 486? (I have xnews in mind.) I'm willing to switch to
>FreeBSD if it does.
No, currently we only have support for NetBSD, 386BSD, and FreeBSD native
code. (And it's possible that certain NetBSD binaries may not work due to
changes they've made)
Sorry,
Nate
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