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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 02:55:00 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <30A9C704.5D0C6A5@FreeBSD.org> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <48aoee$j59@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Steve McLaughlin <mclaughl@bolero.gsfc.nasa.gov> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:27187 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8812 comp.unix.advocacy:10959 comp.unix.misc:19460 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8838 That's interesting, since I generally have very little trouble porting stuff to FreeBSD. However, papering over those niggling little annoyances is what the FreeBSD ports collection (see http://www.freebsd.org/ports) is all about. It's currently up to 361 ports, in 26 different categories, and requires about 1.5MB of space compressed. Clearly, we could triple this number (1000 ports being a reasonable goal) and cover just about every branch of free software without expanding much beyond 5MB, so I think it's reasonable to say that rather than curse the darkness, why not light another candle in the FreeBSD ports collection? :-) We've plenty of room for expansion, and having a utility expressed as a port also buys you the ability to have a packaged binary version of it (which can be added or deleted easily) at no extra cost. -- Jordan