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From: martin@euterpe.owl.de (Martin Husemann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Barriers to NetBSD/FreeBSD binary compatibility?
Date: 19 Aug 1994 07:54:43 +0200
Organization: The Other Site - Martin's Museum of Muses
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In <32vok8$kab@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:
>My choice of OS is obviously NetBSD but it seems I lose because all of
>the available ported packages are done for FreeBSD. In fact; I still
>haven't managed to spend the right amount of time to make things like TeX
>work properly under NetBSD. 'LaTeX' dies, 'dvips' dies, and 'xdvik'
>doesn't work right.
I had all these working some -current's ago, other's have done other things.
So just lets get 1.0 out of the door, sit back a few weeks and watch all the
NetBSD ports pop up on various ftp servers...
Whith a tiny user base as -current you realy can't expect much work being
done on ports, as everyone is busy testing the plain OS.
Martin
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