Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:22:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Grosch <joeg@interaccess.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: erich@lodgenet.com, ports@freebsd.org, jdc@xinside.com Subject: Re: Xinside's Motif Message-ID: <199604121422.JAA27740@flowbee.interaccess.com> In-Reply-To: <11173.829304982@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 12, 96 03:29:42 am
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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 > Well, it seems I've jumped the gun also. I had spoken to a sales person about 6 weeks ago. I guess he was either new or mis-informed. Sorry about this mis-information. I have been chomping at the bit to do some Motif development and bummed about the lack of Motif for FreeBSD. I'm glad to see Xinside is indeed working on a port. Josef -- Josef Grosch - joeg@truenorth.org | "Laugh while you can, monkey boy." http://www.interaccess.com/users/joeg | - John Warfin - ========================================================================== Keeper of FreeBSD ported list - FreeBSD 2.1.0R http://www.interaccess.com/users/joeg/ported.html ==========================================================================
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