From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 17 12:09:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10179 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:09:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10173 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:09:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul10.u.washington.edu (root@saul10.u.washington.edu [140.142.13.73]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA14692; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:08:52 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul10.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA23443; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:08:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:08:20 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" 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: > can i use the source code from the linux software and compile it? A very large chunk of software that runs on linux is already compiled natively for FreeBSD. Anything that you have source to can be ported to FreeBSD fairly readily. Source code availability is the ultimate compatibility. >and how far goes this compability, the most linux systems uses glibc, is >it supported, is freebsd based on the same ? I believe it is but I can't say for sure. >parallel iomega zip drive and a parallel printer on one machine. I don't know about zip discs. Hardware compatibility info _is_ on the website. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message