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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!news.sol.net!uniserve!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie comments/questions Date: 19 Mar 1996 17:49:39 -0000 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4ims3j$ll@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4hgcu4$7ek@news.duke.edu> <4hgt7h$20v@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Thomas Graichen (graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote: : Andrew Gallatin (gallatin@kahlo.isds.duke.edu) wrote: : : ....... I'm very interested in getting the linux version of : : mathematica working too. (currently, 2.2.4 will complain about a few : : unknown ioctl's, print out some gibberish & sometimes crash the system : : if run under 2.1R). : some weeks ago someone posted to freebsd-hackers or freebsd-current (the : mailinglists) that he got mathematica for linux running under FreeBSD (with : some hacking) - maybe you should ask there - maybe he's listening : : .....................Is this also improved under -current? Is the : : linux emulation being independently enhanced, or is FreeBSD simply : : tracking the NetBSD changes? : yesterday mark smith committed a mega linux compat patch to -current - a : mixture of own ideas + fixes and NetBSD tracking i think : t : -- : thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org : perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when : there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery Oops again -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....