From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 26 15:43:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21919 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:43:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21906 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:43:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA20029; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:48:11 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA08495; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:48:10 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980127094810.34487@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:48:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: M S Anam Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Porting targets (was: os type) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from M S Anam on Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 07:28:16PM +0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 07:28:16PM +0600, M S Anam wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the preferred list of OS in compiling/setting up something > which does not have FreeBSD as an option? > > e.g. Pine, it has option for BSD, BSDi, NetBSD. Which one would I pick? Well, if you want to port pine, do: # cd /usr/ports/mail/pine # make install To answer your question, though: If you have the choice BSD, BSDI (I don't think anybody calls it BSDi) and NetBSD, you can probably assume that 'BSD' is less specific, and thus possibly older (4.2BSD or 4.3BSD, depending on the package). BSDI is usually closer to FreeBSD than NetBSD is, so I'd try that first. Of course, you can always run into minor problems in any of the three, and even for FreeBSD if it was developed for a different version. Greg