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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Info Needed
Date: 6 Oct 1996 15:33:57 GMT
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David Henderson <davidh2@airmail.net> wrote:

> 1.  Linux comes with gcc, awk, curses, etc.  Does FreeBSD?

Yep, yep, and yep.

> 2.  Any problems compiling/loading GNU apps?

Nothing unusual.

> 4.  Is there a version of Netscape for BDS like there is for Linux?

There is, it's the BSD/OS version.

>     If not, what options are there for browsers?

Lynx, Mosaic, Chimera.  Certainly more.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)