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From: Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any BBS's run on FreeBSD?
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 05:28:16 -0500 (EST)
Organization: Old Dominion University
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On 17 Feb 1996 b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:

> 
> It is to my understanding that FreeBSD will run nearly all BSDI programs 
> (especially those for X minus if it needs Motif and the Athena widgets just 
> won't do)

You only need the widget sets for compilation of xapps, freebsd will run 
your bsdi apps using the motif widget set just fine, netscape uses motif, 
is a bsdi binary, and runs fine under freebsd.

Jamie

I spent yesterday thinking about the tomorrow that is today.