From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 09:13:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26603 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:13:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26505 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:12:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-156.laker.net [208.0.233.56]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id MAA21556; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:12:44 -0400 Message-Id: <199810091612.MAA21556@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Jens Langecker" Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 12:11:58 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD free for Universities Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 17:37:31 +0200, Jens Langecker wrote: >We want to use Free-BSD on our network in the university. So I want to >know: is Free- BSD also free for educational use? Yes >We need the computers for research in (chemical) databases. Many >software for this has been developed for Linux. Does this software also >run under Free-BSD without any changes? Since you didn't mention it by name, I can't say specifically... But FreeBSD runs quite a bit on Linux software via Linux emulation. If you can find an email address for the developers of the particular software, ask them. If it doesn't work, they may be able to make it work with a few minor changes. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message