Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:52:15 -0700 From: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Cc: scrappy@hub.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <335A73EF.7CEC3527@konnections.com> References: <199704191844.OAA20869@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > Why is a BSD-specific port so important? > Because there are some fundamental differences with what will run on BSD and what will run on Linux when the dust settles. Applixware on Linux expects certain libraries which only some distributions or configurations might have. Thus ApplixWare, though theoretically designed for Linux, might only run on SOME linux.... That's the way I see it... -Mike
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