From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 24 23:04:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B891E16A41F for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 23:04:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179FC43D60 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 23:04:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jBON3px4015689; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:03:51 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:04:26 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200512241219.12940.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> <20051224220153.82566.qmail@web33313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20051224172453.0f080843@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> In-Reply-To: <20051224172453.0f080843@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512241504.26376.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: rod person , danial_thom@yahoo.com Subject: Re: BSD Question's. 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: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 23:04:31 -0000 On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:24 pm, rod person wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST) > > Danial Thom 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