From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 10: 1:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E2C37BE9D for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:01:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from jhix.mindspring.com (user-33qtihi.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.202.50]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10016; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:01:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhix (jhix@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhix.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA03089; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@jhix.mindspring.com) Message-Id: <200008151704.KAA03089@mindspring.com> To: Narvi Cc: j mckitrick , brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:39:58 +0200." Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:04:43 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > CAD. Lot's of CAD packages are for solaris first and then maybe for some > other OS. And many other things. > > The stereotypical unix worstation uses are: > * SUN - cad/eda > * HP - GIS and similar > * SGI - scientific visualisation > > These are, of course, but stereotypes. Note that Digital and IBM are left > out. Well, perhaps a bit more than a simple stereotype, one enforced by clueless marketing people at Xilinx, Modelsim, Cadence, WindRiver and nearly all the EDA vendors. A first step toward overcoming this situation would be having a FreeBSD native version of FlexLM. There exists one for Linux but without FlexLM there is absolutely *no* hope of ever getting native versions. Second step? Get Bristol or one of the other Win32 -> Unix portability companies to support FreeBSD. Cheers, Jerry Hicks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message