Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:03:54 -0400 From: "GR Gaudreau" <grgaud@sprint.ca> To: "Brett Taylor" <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux? Message-ID: <199808140011.UAA06792@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca>
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> > 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, <snipped for brevity> 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
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