From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 03:04:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C511065673 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:04:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eagletree@hughes.net) Received: from smtprelay.b.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0116.b.hostedemail.com [64.98.42.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCDA8FC19 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:04:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eagletree@hughes.net) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (b-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay04.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AA9A54C279F for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:04:01 +0000 (UTC) X-SpamScore: 1 X-Spam-Summary: 2, 0, 0, 0b71c55008f11e61, 944facfeb153b4f0, eagletree@hughes.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, RULES_HIT:355:379:541:564:945:966:973:988:989:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1437:1513:1515:1516:1518:1521:1534:1541:1593:1594:1683:1711:1730:1747:1766:1792:2194:2196:2199:2200:2393:2559:2562:2693:2895:3353:3636:3740:3865:3866:3867:3868:3869:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:3876:3877:4385:5007:6114:7652:7860:7903:8501:8957:9010:9108, 0, RBL:none, CacheIP:none, Bayesian:0.5, 0.5, 0.5, Netcheck:none, DomainCache:0, MSF:not bulk, SPF:, MSBL:none, DNSBL:none Received: from [192.168.0.3] (dpc6744118153.direcpc.com [67.44.118.153]) (Authenticated sender: eagletree@hughes.net) by omf14.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <1163ED2B-058F-426E-850C-E0253BF13645@hughes.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions From: Chris Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:03:45 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-session-marker: 6561676C6574726565406875676865732E6E6574 Subject: linux_base question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:04:03 -0000 I'm trying to keep all FreeBSD servers in my net as I have since the late 90s. I have a requirement to get a quickbooks enterprise server running so I was going to attempt to use compat_linux. It struck me that if I knew the following list of supported linux implementations, I should be able to figure out the best port to use. So far, it doesn't seem too clear to me. Here are the linux versions supported by the 2 daemons Intuit puts out: CentOS 5 Debian (Lenny) Fedora 6 / 7 / 8 Mandriva OpenSuSE 10.2 / 10.3 Ubuntu 6.06 / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.0 Here are the components needed. Gamin - 0.1.7.7 or newer or Fam =96 2.7.0 or newer Glibc =96 2.5-3 or newer, or Libc6 =96 2.5-3 or newer Libgcc =96 4.2.1 or newer Libstdc++ - 4.2.1 or newer Which of the linux_base* ports would be best to attempt to run these two daemons. I just updated ports and have the following shown linux_base-f7 linux_base-f8 linux_base-fc4 linux_base-fc6 (and several Gentoo) Freshports shows fc4 as what you need to support a 2.4 kernel and the others as "Ignore"? What little I could figure out suggests at least some of those linux versions above are 2.6 something kernels. I guessed f8 but then found threads saying it was experimental. I'm just not getting it. Is there an easy answer or will this be a trial and error? I don't know a thing about Linux and never thought I'd have to.=