Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:19:20 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xig and FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991210171533.03e10ce0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <385135CA.3F6C325F@scotty.masternet.it>
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Gianmarco: They're not dropping FreeBSD, thank Heaven. What happened was that a bona fide sales representative of Xi Graphics told me that they were "dropping support for BSD." Turns out that she had misunderstood her boss, who had told her that they were discontinuing their version for *BSD/OS*. --Brett At 10:18 AM 12/10/1999 , Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >This a what Xig said me about the news Brett said us on their idea of >don't support FreeBSD anymore... > >Btw: I am an happy (registred) user of both Metrolink and Xig and I am >not involved with Xig in any way... :-) > > > > >-- > >Regards... > >Gianmarco >"Unix expert since yesterday" > >http://www.giovannelli.itReturn-Path: <chambers@xig.com> >Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by gmarco.ablia.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01994 > for <gmarco@localhost>; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:00:17 +0100 (CET) > (envelope-from chambers@xig.com) >Received: from 194.184.65.4 > by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.0.5) > for gmarco@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:00:18 +0100 (CET) >Received: from xig.com (hidden-user@night.xig.com [207.247.80.135]) > by kirk.giovannelli.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA19081 > for <gmarco@giovannelli.it>; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:01:18 +0100 (CET) > (envelope-from chambers@xig.com) >Received: from xig.com (chon.XiG.com [192.168.128.134]) > by xig.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA50250; > Fri, 10 Dec 1999 08:00:19 -0700 (MST) >Sender: chambers@xig.com >Message-ID: <385125C2.E5592203@xig.com> >Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:09:38 -0700 >From: Bryan Chambers <chambers@xig.com> >Organization: Xi Graphics >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i686) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it> >Subject: Re: news >References: <4.2.0.58.19991209091527.00b062e0@194.184.65.4> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > >Gianmarco, >This is _not_ true. We currently don't support the >ELF-based FreeBSD versions, but we will in the future. >Our current version officially supports versions through >2.2.8, and it should work on versions through 3.3 if >you install the compat22 package for a.out compatibility. >We will be adding ELF support in the future. Please let >me know if you need anything else. >Sincerely, >Bryan > >Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > > > Hello sirs, is it true the news that Xig don't support FreeBSD platform > > anymore ? > > > > As an enthusiastic FreeBSD developer and happy Xaccel user (I bought > > directly from you EVERY Xaccel version from 1.2 to 5.0.3, plus CDE) I find > > this news very sad and perhaps a bad commercial move. > > > > Please can you confirm ? > > > > The world in not only Linux-centric ... > > > > Thanks for attention... > > > > Best Regards, > > Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" > > http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco > > http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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