Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:37:21 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Olof Johansson <offe@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se> Cc: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big win for BSD/OS compatibility Message-ID: <1839.811975041@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:13:10 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950923001249.28642C-100000@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se>
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> On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > > > > Don't know if any of you have seen the news about Netscape apparently > > dropping Linux from its supported platforms for its 2.0 version. Without > > a compatible platform (I guess SCO iBCS doesn't cut it?) Linux users won't > > have Netscape 2.x to cruise the iway with. So far Netscape hasn't dropped > > BSD/OS as a supported platform though and it seems to me that FreeBSD > > leverage this to win a convert or three. > > Let's just hope the support is for the 1.x BSD/OS, and not 2.0. I'm currently talking with them (Netscape) about this very subject. Apparently they need dlopen()/dlsym() functionality in Netscape 2.0 and this is not provided in BSDI 1.1, so there's a problem. I'm now busily trying to talk them into doing both BSDI 2.0 and FreeBSD 2.x native ports.. :-) Jordan
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