From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 24 16:37:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA21671 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:37:21 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA21664 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:37:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA02687; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:36:58 -0700 To: Olof Johansson cc: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" , hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big win for BSD/OS compatibility In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Sep 1995 21:59:46 BST." Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:36:57 -0700 Message-ID: <2685.811985817@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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