Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:04:26 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: rod person <rodperson@adelphia.net>, danial_thom@yahoo.com Subject: Re: BSD Question's. Message-ID: <200512241504.26376.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20051224172453.0f080843@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> References: <200512241219.12940.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> <20051224220153.82566.qmail@web33313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20051224172453.0f080843@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net>
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On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:24 pm, rod person wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST) > > Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I don't expect you to care, but saying you > > "prefer FreeBSD" and saying "FreeBSD is better" > > are different animals. I just wanted to know what > > you could do with FreeBSD that you can't do with > > Windows. I already know what I can do with > > Windows that I can't do with FreeBSD. > > I didn't see the first few emails in this thread so excuse me > if you have answered this, but what can you do on Windows > that you can't do on FreeBSD. Other than play the latest and > greatest games. I'm just wondering. Get a real development platform that will also build programs on Unix.=20 Microsoft's developer program will use cvs on Unix, and submit scripts=20 to do the builds. On its bad day, there isn't anything on Unix that=20 comes close and that includes the ones you have to pay to use. Just to be fair, I had to do a conversion from Cray Fortran to non-Cray=20 =46ortran. It was an old program that allocated arrays and used pointers=20 with offsets in the calls to the subroutines. The debugger on FreeBSD=20 would catch the signal error but wouldn't show you the contents of the=20 arrays. MS debug would just error off; however, if you stuck a=20 breakpoint on the call that was blowing up on Unix, you could examine=20 the arrays on Windows and see what caused the errors. It is handy to=20 have them both around :). Kent Kent =2D-=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA "Nunca te acostar=E1s sin saber una cosa m=E1s" http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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