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To: Olof Johansson <offe@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se>
cc: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Big win for BSD/OS compatibility 
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:37:21 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> > 
> > Don't know if any of you have seen the news about Netscape apparently
> > dropping Linux from its supported platforms for its 2.0 version. Without 
> > a compatible platform (I guess SCO iBCS doesn't cut it?) Linux users won't 
> > have Netscape 2.x to cruise the iway with. So far Netscape hasn't dropped
> > BSD/OS as a supported platform though and it seems to me that FreeBSD 
> > leverage this to win a convert or three.
> 
> Let's just hope the support is for the 1.x BSD/OS, and not 2.0.

I'm currently talking with them (Netscape) about this very subject.
Apparently they need dlopen()/dlsym() functionality in Netscape 2.0
and this is not provided in BSDI 1.1, so there's a problem.

I'm now busily trying to talk them into doing both BSDI 2.0 and
FreeBSD 2.x native ports.. :-)

						Jordan