From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 16:22:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5D316A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:22:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA7A43FEA for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.234]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:25:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3F85ED9D.3090700@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:22:05 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Kotulla References: <3F85BD66.4010808@softmaker.de> In-Reply-To: <3F85BD66.4010808@softmaker.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Oct 2003 23:25:11.0750 (UTC) FILETIME=[95F71660:01C38EBC] cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TextMaker for FreeBSD now also supports FreeBSD 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 23:22:42 -0000 Recently, Martin Kotulla wrote: > I guess you could consider that as a commitment to the FreeBSD > operating system and its users. And, *the very next day*, Martin Kotulla wrote: > Hmm, that was a bit unexpected. FreeBSD 5.x is not binary-compatible > with 4.x; AFAICS all X apps have to be relinked with a different set > of libraries. > > We just did that and now have separate binaries for FreeBSD 4.x and > FreeBSD 5.x. If you are interested in the latest trial version of > TextMaker for FreeBSD, go to http://www.softmaker.de/tml_en.htm and > get the updated binaries. > > As previously said, I am very interested in all kinds of feedback on > TextMaker for FreeBSD. > > Martin Kotulla > SoftMaker Software GmbH Martin, I would consider the fact that you relinked and reposted within one day a rather extraordinary demonstration of "commitment to FreeBSD and its users." I can't see some of the big U$ $oftware companies doing that --- but perhaps things are looking up. As for the product, my initial impression is rather favorable, but as I'm running 5.1 and waiting for Java, I can't compare it to OO. However, if it comes in as handy as I think it may, and my accounting department can pay my salary for October, you may have at least one customer in 29 days or so. Thank you, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.