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From: adrian@lorax.cs.virginia.edu (Adrian Filipi-Martin)
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...
In-Reply-To: sef@kithrup.com's message of Tue, 7 May 1996 19:57:20 GMT
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Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 02:08:25 GMT
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In article <Dr1wrL.My0@kithrup.com> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
| and it will build the binary. Some of these "ports" are binaries that
| cannot be distributed as sources -- netscape, for example, is available as a
| "port." (Admittedly, it's the Linux binary 8-).)
Nope. It's always been the BSDI version. Some people ran
linux-netscape during the brief interim before the BSDI version had
java support. Here's a few lines form the port Makefile:
> DISTNAME= netscape-3.0b2
> CATEGORIES+= www
> MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/navigator/atlas/pr1/unix/standard/
> DISTFILES= netscape-vAtlas_b2-export.i386-unknown-bsd.tar.gz
Adrian
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