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From: Chris Larson <larson@cs.utk.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X on FreeBSD for Mac??
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:14:49 -0500
Organization: University of Tennessee Computer Science
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Edward Hoenkamp wrote:
> 
> Short: does the Macintosh port of FreeBSD (or NetBSD) support X?
> 
> Long:
> Minix does not support X
> MachTen asks another $400 to add X to its system.
> How about FreeBSD?
> yrs. Edward.

Well, you're looking for NetBSD, not FreeBSD.
X does indeed work on several macs in NetBSD but not many.

Check out http://www.netbsd.org/  for more info
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Chris Larson                   larson@cs.utk.edu
Lab Assistant-Backups     Computer Science Dept.
University of Tennessee- Knoxville