From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 30 18:40:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12401 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:40:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from notabene.zer0.org (sac-port55.jps.net [209.63.114.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12388 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:40:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@n1.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by notabene.zer0.org (8.8.7/8.8.8) id SAA26128; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:46:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Message-ID: <19980730184622.K16073@notabene.zer0.org> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:46:22 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Brett Taylor , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions.... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Brett Taylor on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 03:20:04PM -0600 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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