Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:29:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Jens Langecker <paule@studcs.uni-sb.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD free for Universities Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981009112626.26632B-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <361E2DBB.41C67EA6@studcs.uni-sb.de>
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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Jens Langecker wrote: > Hello BSD-Team, > > 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 it is free for ALL use. www.freebsd.org for how to get it (or you can buy the cdroms for a small fee) (helps support the development) > > 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? Possibly. there are 2 ways.. 1/ FreeBSD can run most Linux binary applications (there are instructions on doing this on the web site) 2/ If you have source, it should be a simple matter to recompile for freebsd. (mainly small changes (a few include files etc.)) also see www.de.freebsd.org julian > > Thanx > > Paule > (FS Chemie, University of Saarbruecken) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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