Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:37:27 -0400 From: Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net> To: "Tiago Marques" <motinhas_1@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD compatibility Message-ID: <20020802173727.05bdabe2.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F79bkfYNnAt8si0001cc59@hotmail.com> References: <LAW2-F79bkfYNnAt8si0001cc59@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:12:28 +0300 "Tiago Marques" <motinhas_1@hotmail.com> wrote: > I'm a user of Linux, and i do some programming for college, some related > with sockets, processes, and all kinds of linux system programming. > I've been thinking about moving to FreeBSD but i would like to know if the > programs i do in Linux will be compatible with FreeBSD. Most of them will be compatable. The areas of different compatability would be solvable by a standard configure script. Binaries are also usually compatable, and the emulation is very fast - there's no noticable difference. As for sockets, though I've never ported TCP/IP code between the two, Linux's TCP/IP stack was originally lifted from BSD. (Though FreeBSD's implementation is not only more mature, BSD having the very first implementation of a TCP/IP stack under ARPA's auspices, it has become better tuned over time and is considered one of the fastest.) > Also, i'm a regular user, but not very experienced in Linux, i just know my > way around, not much more. Do you think i'll be able to use FreeBSD easily > or is it more complicated to mantain and admin ? FreeBSD is more difficult to *install* than most major Linux distributions, but easier to *maintain* due to BSD inits and the ports system, among other things. (The latter means no more RPM-style DLL hell.) You'll find eventually that BSD is easier to use than Linux in many tasks because it is better designed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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