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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!amd!amdahl.com!ogma.ccc.amdahl.com!netnews From: haw30@eng.amdahl.com (Henry A Worth) Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Message-ID: <Dpns87.4A0@ccc.amdahl.com> Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com (Usenet Administration) Organization: Amdahl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <4joi3n$bvb@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <stephenkDp7nHo.369@netcom.com> <4jv7c9$m5t@park.uvsc.edu> <stephenkDpCsvp.LBu@netcom.com> <4kfkb2$dgs@coyote.Artisoft.COM> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:19:19 GMT Lines: 44 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14346 comp.os.linux.development.system:21087 comp.os.linux.x:29054 comp.os.linux.hardware:36012 comp.os.linux.setup:49948 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:521 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3097 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2880 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17071 Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) wrote: : ] >Running binaries under IBCS2 emulation instead of running them : ] >native means no support from the software vendors when the : ] >programs fail to run under Linux. : ] : ] MOST are NATIVE aps! : No. Most UNIX apps which exist are IBCS2. : SunOS 4.x is second, followed by the other non-Intel vendors. : ] >That's why Matorx doesn't think Linux (or BSD) is enough of a : ] >market to care to change their policy (a policy which does not, : ] >as they purported in David's quotation of them, protect their IP). : ] : ] This is NOT about Linux! : Check your newsgroups lines. : XFree86 is primarily for the benefit of the free Intel UNIX : clones. Commercial Intel UNIX comes with an X Server, usually : OEM, and XFree86 is limited to Intel. : This is all about nothing but Millenium support for Linux and BSD. The origins of XFree86(tm) date back to long before there were free Intel UNIX clones, and I know I, and others who have contributed, bristle when people try to equate XFree86 with one of the freeware UNIX'en or GNU. XFree86 is a separate project, independent of any particlular OS and portable to many. Prior to the arrival of freeware UNIX'en, the pre-incorporation antecedents of XFree86 were developed to support commercial UNIX'en. The commercial UNIX servers were typically very expensive (if available), supported only a few older video cards, had very limited features and resolutions, were slow to move to newer X11 releases, and all too often orphaned. Up until about a year ago, SVR4 was probably the most common platform used by XFree86 developers, but a couple have moved to *BSD or dropped out. XFree86 still supports more commercial OS's than there are freeware clones. -- Henry Worth - henry.worth@amail.amdahl.com No, I don't speak for Amdahl... I'm not even sure I speak for myself.