RSSFreeBSD on its Way to Ultra Sparc
By Justin Jenkins | Published October 22, 2001, 6:42 PM
Members of the FreeBSD UNIX team have been porting FreeBSD to the Sun Ultra Sparc platform for the past few months, and first booted a machine into 'single' user mode on the 18th of October. Single user mode supports all the basic functions of FreeBSD aside from actually multi-user support.
Even though other UNIX Operating systems such as OpenBSD have had this support for sometime, they lack the program and commercial base that FreeBSD currently enjoys. As the core of Apple's new OS X and now steady on the path to Sun compatibly, FreeBSD is beginning to surface as an open source alternative to Linux or Windows based systems.
Downloads of FreeBSD for Ultra Sparc will be posted to FileForum when they become available.
Can I run Corel Word Perfect for Linux on it? For the ditros I have tried, I can install, but "font server" seems to be the problem every time unless it is installed only on Corel's Linux. But, last time I tried, I couldn't get any StarOffice to install/run on Corel Linux.
James Wheat
http://belprecomputerwizard.com
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|ICQ me, I can get your font server running, you need to update libaps, and then use the new installer (you may need a slight mod to the wordperfect shell script) 3947763
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|Thanks for the offer Fewt, but I guess I will forget about Linux for now. Seems to be to much work to set it up for doing my invoices, business cards, etc...
Besides, no one uses Linux around here, only Mac and Microsoft, so I'll wait on Linux.
James Wheat
http://belprecomputerwizard.com
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|I think FreeBSD is a GREAT O/S, unfortunately it needs the same level of support from free software projects that Linux enjoys. I would switch to it in a heartbeat (I've been using it for select server tasks since 1996) on my desktop if I could get KDE, OpenOffice, Mplayer, etc all native. :-)
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|I'd switch if MSOffice XP, winamp, desktop X, ICQ 2001b, Windows Messenger, delphi were available for it (and no simular products wont do!) ;)
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|I'd switch if MSOffice XP, winamp, desktop X, ICQ 2001b, Windows Messenger, delphi were available for it (and no simular products wont do!) ;)
No Office XP
Winamp has a Linux beta
What is desktop X?
ICQ is junk, get a clone ;-)
No MessengerYou can get kylix for Linux, not FreeBSD though (Kylix is linux delphi)
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|desktop x is l33t eye candy :)
icq, clones dont do SMS (or at least no clones I have looked at in the past)
yes I know what kylix is... I use it. doh! ok so I admit that I use linux occasionally :-/
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|oh and as for winamp... its winamp3 (so no lush plugins available for it yet - and its the huge range of plugins that makes winamp so good), and its for linux and we are talking about FreeBSD here
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|agreed. FreeBSD has some sort of Linux binary compatability system (I used it in the 2.2.x tree back in the day) but I would rather have native apps.
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|I took a look at desktop x I think I have seen it before, never the less, it looks SWEET. It's better than litestep I hope.
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|freebsd's linux compatability is totally transparent and works great. some even say it runs linux apps faster than linux. i have yet to find a general linux app that wouldn't run under freebsd. the only things that freebsd lacks good support for primarily is opengl and smp (supported and working, just not as good). smp will be taken care of when 5.0 goes stable.
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|hmm, must install and play then
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|"(and no simular products wont do!)"
Do you ever bother to *read* the post past the MS reference before you begin slamming, or has your bias clouded out all coherent thought?
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|I answered his questions so shut the hell up
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|DesktopX is pretty sweet .. imagine a completely free form object based desktop
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|I didn't see a question in his post. Nothing ending in a question mark...so, as usual, you just spewed more of your bulls***. So why don't you shut the hell up, you pompous a******.
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|screw you
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