From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 14 17:03:38 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA07535 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:03:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (schizo.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA07530 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:03:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrcpu@localhost) by schizo.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA24339; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:03:28 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:03:27 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Stephen Hocking cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realaudio Server for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199512150023.AAA03049@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Stephen Hocking wrote: > > >>After some fussing around with the RealAudio people, they eventually told me=20 > >>last month there would be a port of the RealAudio server for FreeBSD machines. > >>It was with great joy I found out at their web page that it was coming indeed > >>for version 2.0... This is good news, since the old BSDi version didn't dumped > >>core under the compatibility mode... > >> > >>Just though someone would be happy to know this :-) I know I am... > >> > > Of course, NAS is functionally equivalent as far as I can work out, > and is already available for a number of platforms including FreeBSD & Linux. > Why bother? Because a vast majority of the users out there accessing an ISP from a windows box could give a rats ass about NAS, but the poor ISP needs a RA server to feed them their audio. It's all about understanding the market. Note that he was referring to the RA Server, not a client, which isn't available under any unix accept IRIX as far as I know.