Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:36:57 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> 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 Message-ID: <2685.811985817@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Sep 1995 21:59:46 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950924215829.347A-100000@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se>
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That hasn't been my impression. They haven't out-and-out said no or indicated that FreeBSD would be out of the running due to being "free." A couple of netscape people came up to me at WC's booth at USENIX and indicated that they ran FreeBSD themselves, so who knows? :-) Jordan > On Sun, 24 Sep 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 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.. :-) > > Ahem, didn't they say they wouldn't support 'free' OS:es, and that's why > Linux wasn't on the list? I wouldn't mind if you talked them into doing a > FreeBSD port though. :-) > > > -Olof
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