From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 21:00:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA04649 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 21:00:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA03986 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 20:54:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA13473; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 15:26:51 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601050456.PAA13473@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Free BSD & SCO binaries To: leachr@email.uah.edu (Robert Leach) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 15:26:50 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <30ECB761.1543@email.uah.edu> from "Robert Leach" at Jan 4, 96 09:30:09 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Robert Leach stands accused of saying: > > I notice that FreeBSD claims to be able to run SCO binaries. It does too 8) > Does this mean I can install SCO device driver binaries as well? No; device drivers are not iBCS2 binaries, they're kernel object files. > Also I need to run multiple netcards, since Slackware works with > multiples, does BSD also. And is the configuration of them worse, > or the same as Linux's. BSD has supported multiple network interfaces for, oh at a guess maybe the last fifteen or twenty years. I have no idea what you mean by 'configuration' of them, you'll need to be more specific about what gets your goat there. > Robert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[