On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Peter Petrakis wrote:

Just FYI - unless they have changed things, you're gonna have to hack the
Adobe installer to get it up and running on a platform it was not designed
for.  I tried to install the x86-Linux version onto FreeBSD about a year
ago, and it was none too happy about it.  Once I hacked the installer (w/
an email from Adobe saying "yes you can do it, but we're not supporting
you on it"), I got it up and running fine.

> Hi,
> 	I just subscribed to this list. I've been runing Alphalinux for about a
> year now and i like it, there just ain't to many apps. I have DU
> libraries so i can run atleast netscape though I miserably failed
> running DU JDK and adobe acrobat reader. My classes at school require me
> to use mathematica and I will be getting a copy of the DU version
> through the school but after my experences of running DU apps on linux
> I'm less than optimistic. My question is does NetBSD run DU apps given
> the necesarry libraries and well do they run? Does anything run besides
> netscape? Thanks for your time.
> 
> Alpha Powered,
> Peter Petrakis
> 
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