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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux (SCO Binary Compat) Date: 22 May 1995 05:39:20 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3pp828$2iu@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3ovd1u$1jtd@otho.cc.flinders.edu.au> <3p360d$6sp@agate.berkeley.edu> <D8JKwH.I0u@eskimo.com> <MICHAELV.95May21142549@mindbender.headcandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <MICHAELV.95May21142549@mindbender.headcandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >Just as a point of data (I'm not trying to dissuade you from FreeBSD, >but would happy to dissuade you from Linux ;-), SCO compat is >supposedly getting pretty stable on NetBSD. The WordPerfect demo >supposedly runs great. Oracle might be easily accomplished, also >(don't know of anyone who's tried, yet, though). Not to get into a game of one-upmanship here, but just to note for the record - we can also run the SCO WordPerfect demo and have been able to run Oracle for some time. We are in the middle of rearchitecting some of this to be a good deal cleaner (and hopefully more robust) and will fold it into a mainstream release ASAP. Current plans are to have it in 2.1. Those wishing to jump on the bandwagon early (and perhaps help? :-) should send mail to sos@freebsd.org or swallace@freebsd.org. Jordan