Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

t2000kw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
One question--are the various BSDs different enough that a program
might not work on one but would on another?

Most well-written applications would work on any *BSD, but not all. WINE
has rather exotic requirements (and whether that means they legitimately
decided to make the best use of nonportable features or were too lazy to
find a proper solution - I couldn't say).

Joachim
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