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From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI programs on FreeBSD
Date: 26 Dec 1995 14:06:02 GMT
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Message-ID: <4bovga$al@knobel.gun.de>
References: <30CE4DEB.7686@myp.com> <4am62i$r2k@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <4am62i$r2k@agate.berkeley.edu>,
jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>In article <30CE4DEB.7686@myp.com>, Dean Roth <dean@myp.com> wrote:
>>Will programs compiled under BSDI 2.x run on a FreeBSD 2.x system
>>without recompiling?
>
>BSDI 1.x binaries will work fine on your FreeBSD system. In 2.0, BSDI
>changed some internal structures around and we've only just gotten
>support for these working again (now in FreeBSD-current and slated
>for release in FreeBSD 2.1.1). Fortunately, most vendors (like Netscape)
>would appear to be shipping BSDI 1.x binary versions of their products
>still.
I tried the Netscape proxy server (60 days trial) for BSDI on 2.1 and
-current. It runs very well.
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