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From: byron@news.epix.net ()
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Subject: Re: Netscape Commerce Server on FreeBSD vs BSDI?
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Date: 1 Dec 1995 13:48:55 GMT
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Ermine (Matt Ouimette) (ermine@netscape.com) wrote:

: To the best of my knowledge, Netscape doesn't make a version of the
: server for FreeBSD (or Linux, which I run at home) because practically
: everyone has a different version or configuration of the kernel,
: and it would be nearly impossible to support.

: Matt Ouimette, Tech Support          # "It may be great to soar with
: Netscape Communications Corporation  #  The eagles, but you never
: http://home.netscape.com/            #  see a weasel getting sucked
: 415-528-2841               Ermine!   #  into a jet engine, now do you?"

This point makes sense with respect to Linux, but does not ring true for 
FreeBSD.  FreeBSD is as well standardized as commercial OS's -- in some 
cases, moreso.  Look at Solaris ...