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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 03:18:07 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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> : >of apps for it that were binary only for Linux, 2. Netscape4 for BSDi is
> : >sharelib
> : >linked so it ONLY runs on BSDi and not FreeBSD.

And Raul is also incorrect.  The BSDI version of Netscape4 runs just
fine under FreeBSD (both released versions).  See
/usr/ports/www/netscape4 in the -current FreeBSD ports collection
(ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports).

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.