Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:46:22 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions.... Message-ID: <19980730184622.K16073@notabene.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980730150814.730A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>; from Brett Taylor on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 03:20:04PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980730150814.730A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 03:20:04PM -0600, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi all, > > Yesterday a notice appeared on Freshmeat about an OS chart. The goal of > said chart was to compare and contrast different OS's. I went and looked > ----------------------FreeBSD portion of the chart--------------------- > > Release 2.2.7 > Based on BSD-4.4 > Date of release July 28, 1998 > > Cost > ------ > Cost $39.95 (for any number of users) The cost of the OS is free. Getting the Walnut Creek CDs of FreeBSD costs $39.95. > Installation > ------------ > Native package format pkg_add (in tgz) > Also reads none I believe we can read Red Hat RPMs as well. Can anyone confirm? > Network services > ---------------- > # DCE yes? DCE is not yet available. Jim Doyle <jrd@bu.edu> is working on FreeDCE, which is DCE for Linux and FreeBSD. The Linux version works reasonably well, from what I understand, but the FreeBSD variant is still in progress and should be available shortly. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Bureaucrats cut red tape -- lengthwise. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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