Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 03:29:42 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: joeg@truenorth.org Cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jdc@xinside.com Subject: Re: Xinside's Motif Message-ID: <11173.829304982@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:45:03 CDT." <199604120545.AAA10384@psycfrnd.interaccess.com>
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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
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