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cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jdc@xinside.com
Subject: Re: Xinside's Motif 
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 03:29:42 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Check out their web page (http://night.xinside.com). The first page says
> "FreeBSD" but follow the freebsd links and one find they are saying BSDI. I
> assume that one should buy their product that was for BSDI and run it as an

This was a bit of gun-jumping on someone's part at X Inside which has
left the engineering dept. feeling rather gloomy.  They're still at
the stage of doing the pre-production distribution which will, in
turn, be sent on to me so that I have a chance to evaluate it _before_
it goes to press (I only wish that Lasermoon had seen fit to do this
with their dist!  It would have avoided many of the problems I found
with it).

> emulation. I'm not sure I'm willing to spend $150.00 for an emulation. I
> have had several phone conversations with a sales person at Xinside and he
> has said several times that a native FreeBSD port of Motif is not in the
> near future. Sigh!! :-( I guess I'm gonna have to send my money to

That's totally incorrect.  Please hang back a bit on this one - it is
imminent, but apparently there are some communications problems within
X Inside that need to be resolved as well.

> Lazermoon. They have a native FreeBSD port of Motif for $100.00.

I wish I could recommend this distribution.  It does work, but hardly
flawlessly, and the support@lasermoon.co.uk address seems to have the
local cemetery on staff for all the response I've gotten from it.

					Jordan