From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 15:39:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-089.telepath.com [216.14.0.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0948437B424 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 75476 invoked by uid 100); 14 Sep 2000 22:38:29 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14785.21349.643139.566123@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:38:29 -0500 (CDT) To: Jan Knepper Cc: Mike Meyer , Micke Josefsson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which linuxdist is closest to FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <39C1519A.A2612606@smartsoft.cc> References: <14785.20034.605461.346474@guru.mired.org> <39C1519A.A2612606@smartsoft.cc> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jan Knepper writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > Micke Josefsson writes: > Well, I am not sure what I did wrong yesterday and today, but I tried very hard to > install Btrieve (http://www.pervasive.com/) for RedHat 6.0. But could not get it to > work... Well, if it's specific to RedHat, it's not clear how well it will work on other Linux distros - like FreeBSD :-). > I guess finally after 15 years I will have to give up on Btrieve since they don't seem > to have their act together with a native version for FreeBSD... One of the things I found attractive about FreeBSD was JKH's approach of encouraging vendors to support Linux in general, and then making the emulator work well enough to support other applications. You might try checking with the emulators list (I'm not sure of the exact address) to see if anyone has done anything with Btrieve before. Personally, I'm about to emark on trying to convince a Linux DTP package to run on FreeBSD. Be well,