Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:02:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: John Margaritis <ioannis@widow.aracnet.net> Cc: questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Applications Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970317170053.1111G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <m0w60XR-0006EQC@widow.aracnet.net>
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On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, John Margaritis wrote: > In general, do most apps have to be BSD specific? No. FreeBSD contains support for Linux a.out (and ELF in 2.2-RELEASE) and SCO binaries to a limited extent. > I'm mostly concerned with internet apps. Can I get graphical apps from the > packages or ports section of the FBSD ftp site (Browsers, mail & news, > etc.) Yes; those will most definitely work. > Will the upcoming release of Internet Explorer for UNIX be able to run on > FBSD. http://www.microsoft.com/ie/default.asp; then choose unix. Would you want to considering the multitude of security holes discovered in Internet Exploder recently? And is it available in a BSD binary? (*BSD, including BSDi) The MagicCookie issue has burned me enough, but blatant arbitrary-execution holes are totally unacceptable. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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