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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!edi.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD compatibility with 386BSD - Netscape Commerce Server? Date: 8 Jul 1995 23:45:07 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3tmu93$mun@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3th9jr$otf@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit w.c. trenholm <trenholm@julian.uwo.ca> wrote: >Hi there, does anyone have information on the compatibility between FreeBSD >and 386BSD. I have read that most applications are compatible, but I need to >know if the Netscape Commerce Server is... Thanks so much. I don't think Netscape would sell anything for 386BSD, but rather for BSD/OS (commercial system by BSDi, previously known as BSD/386). It's said to be compatible as long as linked statically, and actually many people are running Netscape binaries on FreeBSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)