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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 - a status report. Date: 28 Oct 1994 04:27:03 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 37 Message-ID: <38puin$gp@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <38j31l$6nf@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu Keywords: freebsd release status In article <38j31l$6nf@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: > ... >In a nutshell, the next release of FreeBSD will be version 2.0, based >fully on CSRG's 4.4 Lite release. The fact that this is a ".0 release" Wow ! Thank you ... Finally... :) > ... >Early iBCS2 support will, indeed, be provided in FreeBSD 2.0 and a number of >SCO binaries are currently running with it. We're not quite up to running >Word Perfect for SCO yet, but it's been reported that some popular SCO >commercial database systems are running now. This is an evolving feature, and >I have every expectation of being up to "Word Perfect level" sometime fairly >soon. Many thanks to Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) and Sean Eric Fagan >(sef@FreeBSD.org) for their efforts here. Next stop - Linux binary emulation! > ... As far as I have seen, there were many problem reports regarding on PCFS. But I have not seen the request for SCO binary support (or did I miss it ?). Are you working on the PCFS or is it left as it was ? Another thing is that I was not successful in making Wine run. I think that this was reported several times. I believe that if you have a to-do list, these (reliable PCFS and Wine support) should be on top of the above SCO binary support, especially if you consider that at this moment there the number of programs which run on Wine is growing fast - according to www page of Wine, there were at leat more than 30 games were runningon Wine - from cica). This may not really be the concerns of pure Unix-men, but it will attract many people. Thank you. -- Woody Jin