Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:01:44 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: norman <Norman.Hasler@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: linux compability Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.96.981218085555.24489C-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <01BE29FD.52E3FB50@DialPPP-7-253.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, norman wrote:
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> 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,
[..]
The great UNIX tradition is to provide portability at source level;
so most software that'd compile on Linux (or UNIX) should be
compilable under FreeBSD. However, this also greatly depends on how
portably the software has been written; you *will* get stuff that
won't compile clean, that's why FreeBSD provides the `ports'
mechanism.
Jonathan Chen
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