From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 22:56:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E52106566C for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 22:56:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [75.101.116.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE83C8FC16 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 22:56:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (pool-108-23-64-87.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.64.87]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p24MscWr031626 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: <20110304224553.GD28710@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:54:38 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <98DE64E1-EE7F-4B52-A204-A2AF70005FDE@lafn.org> References: <5F4DD89C-5F3B-46B8-BA91-A25B8BF11EEB@lafn.org> <20110304224553.GD28710@comcast.net> To: Charlie Kester X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Purchased Binaries X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:56:21 -0000 On 4 March 2011, at 14:45, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Fri 04 Mar 2011 at 13:24:32 PST Doug Hardie wrote: >> I have a client who has purchased some software. I don't know = anything >> much about it yet other than it claims to run on Debian and CentOS. I >> suspect its binaries. I will have access to things like the = developer, >> name etc. on Monday. However, thats when he needs to know if I can = make >> it run on FreeBSD. >=20 > Are you bidding against a Linux guy for this job? No. I have the job. >=20 > That doesn't sound like a reasonable demand. Does he want your final > answer on Monday, or do you think you can buy some time for further > investigation He is under the gun and needs to get this working last week..... > if you tell him about FreeBSD's support for the Linux ABI, > etc.? He is pretty much non-technical and will go with any solution I believe = will work. >=20 > Maybe bring in a FreeBSD laptop and do a demo where you install some > Linux binary from the web and show him that it runs? (Be sure to > practice the demo beforehand!) I still wouldn't give him an ironclad > guarantee that the software he bought will run too, but perhaps the = demo > will raise his confidence level enough to give you a chance to find = out. Pretty much I will have the real software on Monday and will need to get = it up and going very quickly. I want to use FreeBSD because all the = other parts of what he needs I already have running on various FreeBSD = servers. Also, I very much like the FreeBSD approach (like to pf) of = don't break things that previously worked without workarounds so that = production systems are not killed. >=20 >=20