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From: jhupp@black.gensys.com (Jeff Hupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any BBS's run on FreeBSD?
Date: 17 Feb 96 05:57:22 GMT
Organization: Houston Area League of PC Users
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:

>Tom Sullivan wrote:
>> My ISP runs "The Major BBS" on a BSDI system, so it could be that they have a
>> version for FreeBSD also.

>It could also be that the BSDI version will run just fine on a FreeBSD
>system! :-)  Well, I should qualify that.  If the binaries were
>generated on a BSDI 1.x system then it'll work great.  If it was a BSDI
>2.x system then you'll have to get the patches from FreeBSD-current
>(unless one is already running -current) which allows BSDI 2.x binaries
>to also work.  It's a simple patch.

	They offer both versions (BSDI 2.x and 1.x) you just have to specify
what you want when you order.  Nice X interface too.  The 1.x version runs
fine on 2.0.5 and 2.1 (from personal experence)

--
Jeff

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