FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended
from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on
Research Unix. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993.
-This port is from 1999
It includes binaries, fortune files, and source code so you can build
it yourself.
> This is a port of FreeBSD fortune to OpenStep/Mach and MacOS X
> Server. The original README file
> is here and is called "README.ORIG". It's possible that this port
> will build and run on
> NeXTSTEP 3.x, but I don't program on NeXTSTEP these days.
>
> The whole UN*X experience has gone downhill as vendors increasingly
> forget to ship the /usr/
> games stuff in their operating systems. I consider it a bug in
> OpenStep and MacOS X Server that
> fortune doesn't ship with the system. So, here's what you need to
> make your computing
> experience complete. What's the point in logging in if you can't
> play "mille", keep your files
> private using the unbreakable encryption of "caesar", or read a
> good fortune?
>
> I took this from the FreeBSD-current directory tree on July 10,
> 1999, mainly because I was too
> lazy to download and unpack the games sources from a RELEASE
> version of FreeBSD. You can get
> FreeBSD from <
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/> or on
> <
http://www.freebsd.org/>. If you're
> running Intel hardware and you don't have NeXTSTEP or OpenStep,
> then you should run FreeBSD
> because it's cool.
>
> I've hacked out a bunch of stuff including all the FreeBSD
> makefiles, since they don't work in
> other operating systems. I also flattened out the directories and
> moved unstr, fortune and
> strfile into the top level. I made a brand spanking new Makefile
> which builds all three
> programs. I replaced the manpages with some older manpages I found
> in a previous port that
> someone did of fortune to NeXTSTEP. The ones that came with the
> current FreeBSD sources won't
> work with the man/nroff commands in OpenStep or MacOS X Server.
>
> I made very few changes to the C source files, but all my changes
> are marked with comments that
> include the string "CFS" so you can search for them.
>
> The licenses and copyrights for the source files in this project are
> included in each file.
> Most files are taken from FreeBSD, except the regexpr.{c,h} files
> which have a different
> copyright.
>
> Share and Enjoy! ~Chris Saldanha
See PDFs: 1993-Original 1999-Chris
Compatibility
Architecture: PPC
