Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:42:49 -0400 From: Jan Knepper <jan@smartsoft.cc> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Which linuxdist is closest to FreeBSD? Message-ID: <39C15469.55564F72@smartsoft.cc> References: <14785.20034.605461.346474@guru.mired.org> <39C1519A.A2612606@smartsoft.cc> <14785.21349.643139.566123@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > Jan Knepper writes: > > Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Micke Josefsson writes: > > Well, I am not sure what I did wrong yesterday and today, but I tried very hard to > > install Btrieve (http://www.pervasive.com/) for RedHat 6.0. But could not get it to > > work... > Well, if it's specific to RedHat, it's not clear how well it will work > on other Linux distros - like FreeBSD :-). I don't know how specific it is... Probably *very* in the communications area... > > I guess finally after 15 years I will have to give up on Btrieve since they don't seem > > to have their act together with a native version for FreeBSD... > One of the things I found attractive about FreeBSD was JKH's approach > of encouraging vendors to support Linux in general, and then making > the emulator work well enough to support other applications. That's what I like too! > You might > try checking with the emulators list (I'm not sure of the exact > address) to see if anyone has done anything with Btrieve before. Where about would I find that!? I checked FreeBSD.org and also did a global search on the web... There wasn't much... > Personally, I'm about to emark on trying to convince a Linux DTP > package to run on FreeBSD. Cool! Which one? Don't worry, be Kneppie! Jan -- Jan Knepper Smartsoft, LLC 88 Petersburg Road Petersburg, NJ 08270 U.S.A. http://www.smartsoft.cc/ http://www.mp3.com/pianoprincess Phone : 609-628-4260 FAX : 609-628-1267 FAX : 303-845-6415 http://www.fax4free.com/ Phone : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) FAX : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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