From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 19:40:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ants.pocketscience.com (gateway1.pocketscience.com [209.24.64.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF3737BA28 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:40:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@pocketscience.com) Received: from pocketscience.com (southpark.i.pocketscience.com [10.10.4.2]) by ants.pocketscience.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id HGNVLPT8; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:40:31 -0800 Message-ID: <38D99230.289695C3@pocketscience.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:40:32 -0800 From: Brian Nelson Organization: PocketScience, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Rowley Cc: j mckitrick , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is BSD slower? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Rowley wrote: > > I dont know the ins and outs of either the hardware, or the programs > you've mentioned, but I can clear a couple of things up ;) > > > I'm trying to explain to a pal who tried BSD recently why this might > > be. He also had problems with running netscape w/o a.out X binaries > > (probably because he didn't use the port, right?) > > afaik Netscape is aout anyway, so you need the libraries. > > > And he also said he > > had to reboot to use newly installed libraries, that ldconfig did not > > work. He's an advanced Unix/Linux user, so i don't know what i could > > do to help him > > If he doesnt know how to use ldconfig, he cant be that advanced. The > problem was most likely that the either the aout directories were not in > his ldconfig path, or that he failed to specifiy aout when using > ldconfig. i.e. ldconfig -aout -R, perhaps used with -m and specifying the > aout directories. If he'd have read the ldconfig man page, he would have > known this ;) Advanced Linux == "Can have at most 5 years experience being around Linux, would be most likely 2." Advanced Man Page Reader is a required course to be an advanced UNIX user. > I'm not trying to insult his knowledge you understand, just giving you > something to tell him, so he doesnt think it's FreeBSD's fault he couldnt > set up netscape... Oh, come now. if anyone claims to be an advanced anything they should know how to use basic functionality. Stop being so nice. =D -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message