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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI compatibility in 2.1-stable ?
Date: 3 Jun 1996 22:42:10 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <31B2E552.1372@marben.be>,
Jean-Pierre Morant  <jpm@marben.be> wrote:
>I've heard that the latest 2.1-stable supports BSDI binaries. Is it true
>?

Actually, support for some BSDI binaries (1.0?) goes back to
2.1-release or perhaps even to 2.0.5. The -stable support is for later
BSDI binaries (2.0?) which are in a different format.

(Sorry for the vagueness, I'm not too well up on BSDI).

>Does anyone have experience with this ?

There isn't a FreeBSD version of Netscape, so a lot of people use the
BSDI version. I used to use it under 2.1.0 until I got fed up with it
(Netscape that is, not 2.1.0 8-)

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk         | jraynard@freebsd.org