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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD...
Date: 16 Dec 1995 23:39:47 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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neal@fohnix.metronet.com (Neal Howard) wrote:
] I just received my Netscape Unix Server Bundle cdroms today. The Commerce
] Server (ver 1.12) CD has the install trees for *all* the supported unixes
] on it. There is a BSDI install tree on it, no FreeBSD. The BSDI version
] would probably run under FreeBSD (and perhaps Linux with iBCS installed),
] no?
No. BSDI is not an IBCS2 using system. BSDI binaries will not
run on Linux under IBCS2.
The BSDI version *will* run under FreeBSD, since it has a BSDI ABI
module.
Maybe Linux support some other ABI?
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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or previous employers.