From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 17 17:03:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA19480 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:03:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA19468 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:03:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA01156; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:02:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:02:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: John Margaritis cc: questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Applications In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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