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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD compatibility with 386BSD - Netscape Commerce Server?
Date: 8 Jul 1995 23:45:07 +0200
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w.c. trenholm <trenholm@julian.uwo.ca> wrote:
>Hi there,   does anyone have information on the compatibility between FreeBSD
>and 386BSD.  I have read that most applications are compatible,  but I need to
>know if the Netscape Commerce Server is...  Thanks so much.

I don't think Netscape would sell anything for 386BSD, but rather for
BSD/OS (commercial system by BSDi, previously known as BSD/386).

It's said to be compatible as long as linked statically, and actually
many people are running Netscape binaries on FreeBSD.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)