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Date:      Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:00:15 -0600 (CST)
From:      Licia <licia@o-o.org>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Let's nail some things down.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981028205707.13136A-100000@o-o>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810281808020.7221-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>

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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> >It's too early to cast them in stone.  In addition, we haven't looked
> >at the third category, the "not FreeBSD, but vendor supplies
> >installation aids for FreeBSD users".  
> 
> If the vendor built binaries for us and provides the install aids,then my
> vote is that that is still "Designed for".
> 
> Now that you have mentioned it. Perhaps "Designed for" is a bit
> presumptuous. Any better ideas?
> 
> "FreeBSD Native" is good but perhaps nerdy.
> 
> Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
> Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/
> 

Perhaps to cover all three major cases, there could be three labels?

FreeBSD Native     : runs without emulation
FreeBSD Compatible : runs with emulation, no or trivial effort needed
FreeBSD Adaptible  : runs with emulation, non trivial work needed



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