Subject: Re: 4 short questions
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: The Administrator <admin@righi.ml.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/16/1998 16:48:25
someone from youtold me a free versoin of AFS for NetBSD is not
supported...
hmm well On FReeBSDS AFS is not supported.
it is supported only on OpenBSD

does exisit an arla port in NetBSD or a XFS option in th ekernel?

thanks

Rick

On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Dec 16, The Administrator wrote
> > 
> > Hello folks.
> > I am a FReeBSD and OpenBSD addict.
> > I now want to try out NetBSD.
> > I just need to know some info.
> > 
> > 1) Does NetBSD support AFS ? Is it built in a kernel option or something
> > or it is supported via th earla port ??
> 
> It does, you just need to get a LKM from somwhere ... probably the same place
> where you got your AFS modules for FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
> 
> > 
> > 2) Does NetBSD have a ports collection like Free and Open BSD ?
> 
> Yes, but it's called "packages" (ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/packages/).
> "port" is design NetBSD running on a given hardware.
> 
> > 
> > 3) Does NetBSD have linux binaries compatibility ?
> 
> Yes. "options COMPAT_LINUX" in your kernel config file.
> 
> > 
> > 4) I have seen on the main ftp site a directory  1.3.3 but it is empty.
> >    Is NetBSD-1.3.3 going to be released soon??
> 
> Yes. binaries are being compiled and uploaded, the release should be announced
> soon (hopefully we'll have it for Christmas :)
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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