From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 11:56:09 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 D5B34106566B for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:56:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F9C8FC12 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:56:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so3989833fxm.13 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:56:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=WGOrG7AGWMXdfKccn6/rGM6pAOdRkflrUq07iIbjvcQ=; b=LBBCInqVsABNU14EXkKfzXwHi3KlqCd8fi6/p4BH+nXwH4W/L5PoJ0tUwue1IUM238 bYCtXManGGiynTu+0gLO0oENcEUkQBOc0QDCPpwubU0kVB2xllU6ZepHZVVM+KfcZLHQ iFZGlNdTwUR2rqcoGxYFnIQU7HKBodRJyPc/A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=e3ldl9qSZdJAOLUvh+t1RnKNjPhFCC1dDKk+RohY2YfUL7/mGHVN5jD+XFXA6uj10+ /dFOwJ+NeC0/OXSsT1PqVBBCsRX1X9fNmhQpb8SzsicLrd7+6jIoG8yaTwKQFy/z8WDb BPMzFwBXbPUMOtmk4eaPUeMcPT6b3M2eEROuI= Received: by 10.204.71.20 with SMTP id f20mr1157770bkj.139.1295092568082; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:56:08 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.52.19 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:55:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D318943.90409@gmail.com> References: <20110115003535.75A7010656BF@hub.freebsd.org> <591451.38501.qm@web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <4D318943.90409@gmail.com> From: Chris Rees Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:55:37 +0000 Message-ID: To: Alessandro Baggi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Decision X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:56:09 -0000 On 15 January 2011 11:47, Alessandro Baggi wro= te: > On 01/15/2011 11:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips =A0wrote= : >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> 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 distr= os as >>> well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking. One = thing >>> I also ran into is that md5sum (Debian) ~=3D md5 (BSD). I suppose you a= re >>> 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? Pretty good: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html It's also generally _very_ well documented by someone or other. Chris