From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 11:47:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCE2106566B for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:47:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alessandro.baggi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF6C28FC0C for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so3805332wwf.31 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:47:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6u36/6WZ9rMLCz2D3JsALh8MTudURwqQRvapvG6mh3Y=; b=ufn3ViYqxXvMtG0Bppem1XzTl8Igq0pcPDm1NBhOVQ7gdceKqSSoQqWckHcAMJ2i6a /UJenpDcZ00hEPLZWc7RsGfHIb+k6MD+btnQWB8VBL7D6lv/VUjfN3BQhwBnHl8osHyf bUdcJU86qyIGcdZXKNfwrj5kPInsMS61XrQsw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=njW3LfepmtYGd0OxO00X0dYqvGwFdFE5LUsLpcA/hf52wekgtGmx1JT87VZlGEKEg4 Y+IzS9MHJIY6FeKyzI+1i/F1PQNzKmwAFt9OVE/aZ71dF1cyrpim9BAZnDMr2ZRMcXSm 1HkQ80sAcWjGKza3OuXo0fqqgzlb6twmEXdZ0= Received: by 10.227.155.75 with SMTP id r11mr1860419wbw.3.1295092039431; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.4.58] (ip-144-126-ull.customer.panservice.it [212.66.126.144]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f35sm1654445wbf.20.2011.01.15.03.47.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:47:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D318943.90409@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:47:15 +0100 From: Alessandro Baggi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125 Thunderbird/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110115003535.75A7010656BF@hub.freebsd.org> <591451.38501.qm@web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD Decision 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: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:47:21 -0000 On 01/15/2011 11:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips wrote: > > > > > >> One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX "dialect" than most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros as well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking. One thing I also ran into is that md5sum (Debian) ~= md5 (BSD). I suppose you are supposed to use SHA2 these days anyway :P >> >> > > > I'd like to jump in and say that the 'dialect' that the GNU utilities > use often have a very strange interpretation of POSIX. Many porters > (for example) have to spend huge amounts of time repairing GNUisms in > install scripts; for example when I was helping to port Scilab > (Bashisms in '['), and some work I've done on Busybox has meant I've > had to work around GNUisms in sed and find. > > On the risk of starting a flame war, I believe that the GNU folks are > guilty of exactly the same embracing and extension tactics (however > unwittingly) as everyone's favourite software corp. > > > > Chris > > How is the hardware support on FreeBSD?