Other platforms

[Alex Rice]

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 10:08  AM, Yennie at aol.com wrote:

> On the note of *NIX platforms from my previous Linux thread, this 
> whole area seems a bit fuzzy.
> Is there anywhere documented in detail what is supported on the 
> various other UNIX platforms?
>
> For example, I may prefer FreeBSD over Linux on x86. I know FreeBSD 
> has a Metacard build, but I don't know if Rev will have one, whether 
> Metacard will have one when the next version comes out, etc.
>
> Is there any specific plan in place here, or is it essentially 
> Mac-Win-Linux and everything else only with sufficient demand? Should 
> I even be thinking about a FreeBSD port with RevDB and all included, 
> or is that never gonna happen in lieu of Linux?

Did you notice the tooltips on the "Platforms to Distribute on" in the 
Distribution Builder. They give some hints as to what platform is 
specifically being supported, e.g. "FreeBSD and BSDI",


Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com