From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 17 12:04:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09789 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09784 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:04:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA27226; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:01:44 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:01:44 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: norman cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: linux compability In-Reply-To: <01BE29FD.52E3FB50@DialPPP-7-253.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, norman wrote: [please set your line length to 72 chars] > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" - Edmond Blackadder III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message