From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 17 11:41:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06447 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:41:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sunu450.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (sunu450.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.222.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA06434 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:41:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Norman.Hasler@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (qmail 25256 invoked from network); 17 Dec 1998 19:41:16 -0000 Received: from dialppp-1-196.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (HELO DialPPP-7-253.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) (134.147.1.196) by mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de with SMTP; 17 Dec 1998 19:41:16 -0000 Received: by DialPPP-7-253.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de with Microsoft Mail id <01BE29FD.52E3FB50@DialPPP-7-253.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:39:20 -0000 Message-ID: <01BE29FD.52E3FB50@DialPPP-7-253.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> From: norman To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: linux compability Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:39:17 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA06442 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At first, i feel me very pleased that you answered so quickly on my request. thank you very much. and there only two points i want asking, to throw away my hasitating bying freebsd. you mentioned, freebsd is binary compatible to linux and my question is: can i use the source code from the linux software and compile it and then it is running ( perhaps a stupid question, apologize me, but i am a new one on unix) or is it only possible to run ready compiled programms and how far goes this compability, the most linux systems uses glibc, is it supported, is freebsd based on the same ? and the 2nd is, can i use a parallel iomega zip drive and a parallel printer on one machine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message