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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:52:15 -0700
From:      mike allison <mallison@konnections.com>
To:        joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Cc:        scrappy@hub.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought
Message-ID:  <335A73EF.7CEC3527@konnections.com>
References:  <199704191844.OAA20869@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu>

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Joel Ray Holveck wrote:

> 
> Why is a BSD-specific port so important?
> 


Because there are some fundamental differences with what will run on BSD
and what will run on Linux when the dust settles.

Applixware on Linux expects certain libraries which only some
distributions or configurations might have.  Thus ApplixWare, though
theoretically designed for Linux, might only run on SOME linux....

That's the way I see it...

-Mike



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