From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 9: 5:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0F0A37B491 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:05:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 3566 invoked by uid 100); 26 Feb 2001 17:05:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15002.36062.995101.772218@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:05:34 -0600 To: "Reidar Gustavsson" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Framemaker and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <63315787@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Reidar Gustavsson types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't do that. Just send plain text. Don't send HTML, either > I'm now working with Adobe Framemaker under Windows but i'm > interested in switching over to Free BSD. > > My question is if anybody has made an attempt at running the UNIX verson = > of Framemaker under FreeBSD? I have. The Linux version worked quite nicely after tweaking the startup script. Unfortunately, they no longer offer a Linux version, and the license for the one they offered expired. > See below for fundamental prerequisite: > UNIX > . Additional requirements for SunT SPARCstationT: . SolarisT = > 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7, or 2.8 > . Additional requirements for HP-9000 Series 700 and 800: . = > HP-UX 10.2 or 11.0 > . Additional requirements for IBM Power PC=AE and RISC = > System/6000=AE Workstations: . AIX=AE 4.2.1, 4.3.2, or 4.3.3 Note that none of those are x86 platforms. Or even alpha. That makes it unlikely that you'll get FreeBSD to run on them, much less Framemaker. You might check the NetBSD lists to see if anyone is using it there. You're more likely to find producton quality ports running on those platforms. They also tend to be good about providing ABI compatability for the native Unix variant. If you want FrameMaker on BSD, that's your most likely choice. If you want FrameMaker on Unix on Intel hardware, you're out of luck. Adobe doesn't offer it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message