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From: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux as server
Date: 1 Oct 1995 00:54:36 -0400
Organization: Internex Online (Data: 363-3783/Telnet: io.org)
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Message-ID: <44l6uc$hi3@ionews.io.org>
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In article <44bnmn$amp@news.uni-paderborn.de>, Thorsten Kukuk <jkuku1@uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
>
>My experience with FreeBSD is, it's difficult to port to it.
>With the most software, I hadn't any problems to compile them
>under Linux, but for FreeBSD you have to use the ports (if they
>exists).
You must be kidding. What kind of software were you trying to
"port"? Stuff written on Linux systems to begin with? My experience
is exactly opposite to yours for packages that were developed on
non-Linux platforms and don't explicitly say they support Linux (heck,
even if they do say it). Most of the "porting" I have to do to get
something to run under FreeBSD is commenting out sys_errlist
declarations for non-BSD4.4-aware code, or using GNU make instead of
the standard BSD make to parse some Makefiles.
--
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"