Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:55:37 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Decision Message-ID: <AANLkTi=%2B337tDA%2BqHWgHuCzkEi-ZVnaNJo0X6dfuY8kn@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D318943.90409@gmail.com> References: <20110115003535.75A7010656BF@hub.freebsd.org> <591451.38501.qm@web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <AANLkTikFM63cZ=E0BjDFbYg3d9=BOcwqfdnq5OnbgFPS@mail.gmail.com> <4D318943.90409@gmail.com>
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On 15 January 2011 11:47, Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi@gmail.com> wro= te: > On 01/15/2011 11:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips<anti_spam256@yahoo.ca> =A0wrote= : >> >> <snip> >> >> >> >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> <rant> >> >> 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. >> >> </rant> >> >> 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
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