Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 13:37:50 +0100 (MEZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: matra@diemme.it (matra) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newbie... Message-ID: <199701271237.AA112538670@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970124224757.68C-100000@bridget.devlab.org> from "matra" at Jan 24, 97 11:03:13 pm
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E-mail message from matra contained: > Hi! > > After the thread i want to ask some questions . Again, this is my opinion, the core team may see things differently: > > 1 - Suppose ,for example, i have FreeBSD-2.1.5 with ,for example, sendmail > version x.y.z . If i ftp from a.b.c the newest sendmail, unpack it > in /usr/src and compile it , have i FreeBSD-2.1.5 or "FreeBSD-matra"? I'd call it FreeBSD-2.1.5 with the newest sendmail. But if you were to redistribute the product the matters would likely be different. > > 2 - Why ports? > I have installed many programs (nvi,vile,diffutils,a prolog > compiler) from various srcs without problems ! Because they automate the process. cd /usr/ports; make all install and all ports will have been fetched, built and installed. > > 3 - FreeBSD's libc is different from the linux libc; Where can i get > the src for it ? Wat about libg++ ?Can anyone give me information > about diffs between linux-libc and freebsd-libc? libc is in slib.?? chunks. They make up a slib.tgz. As for the diffs, UTSL (i.e. Hell if I know). Main diff is: BSD libc is unencumbered. /Marino
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