From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 15:43:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net (smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net [199.45.39.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA82837B424 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smartsoft.cc (client-209-158-91-202.bellatlantic.net [209.158.91.202]) by smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA25645; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:43:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39C15469.55564F72@smartsoft.cc> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:42:49 -0400 From: Jan Knepper Organization: Smartsoft, LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Which linuxdist is closest to FreeBSD? References: <14785.20034.605461.346474@guru.mired.org> <39C1519A.A2612606@smartsoft.cc> <14785.21349.643139.566123@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message