From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 17:09:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14486 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca (hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca [207.107.250.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14480 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:09:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grgaud@sprint.ca) Received: from grgaud (spc-isp-ott-uas-04-42.sprint.ca [209.103.29.193]) by hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA06792; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:11:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199808140011.UAA06792@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca> From: "GR Gaudreau" To: "Brett Taylor" Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux? Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:03:54 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I do believe I'm going to drop RH 5.1 Linux and install FreeBSD. > > Great! > > > speaking of which: what do you mean by "ports"? > > There are 2 kinds of ports (you mentioned serial, parallel etc). What we > mean by ports in the context that's been used here is taking a piece of > software and making it so that FreeBSD can compile and run it cleanly. > Once a particular port has been committed, a user simply goes to > /usr/ports/some_directory/some_program_I_want and types "make install" and > your machine will automatically fetch the source, patch it for FreeBSD, Ok, I see. Thanks. I was reading about ports on the FreeBSD.org page and I thought perhaps that's what was meant, but I wasn't sure. Again, my thanks. -- G.R. Gaudreau grgaud@sprint.ca http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5783/ If a man who is mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message