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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!newssvr.cacd.rockwell.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!usenet 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 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: slip-22-7.itc.virginia.edu Message-ID: <87bujzapd1.fsf@lorax.cs.virginia.edu> Sender: adrian@lorax.cs.virginia.edu Organization: University of Virginia X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <Dr1wrL.My0@kithrup.com> Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 02:08:25 GMT Lines: 24 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 -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://uvacs.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| info at ftp.uu.net:/doc/lpf, print Programming Freedom ->| "join.ps.Z" for an application