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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: InfoMagic's BSDisc Sucks
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:22:12 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Philippe Causse <causse@sphynx.fdn.fr>
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Philippe Causse wrote:
> I'm also disappointed with InfoMagic's distribution of Motif (MooTiff) for
> FreeBSD: brain-dead installation script, incoherent paths, badly

If you want *any* release of Motif or CDE for either FreeBSD or Linux,
there's only one reasonable place to get it: Xi Graphics (formerly X
Inside, Inc.).  There are still evils that exist in their distributions,
don't get me wrong, but this is primarily because of the stuff they're
packaging, e.g. no matter now hard you work to repackage the OSF/Open
Group's Motif distributions, they always smell a bit afterwards. :-)

Still, for the least smelly OSF bits available, they're the only game in
town.  http://www.xig.com

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