From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 0:11:30 2002 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 705F437B400 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl (fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.94.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC85A43E42 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl) Received: by fia168-94.dsl.hccnet.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5844556; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:11:25 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Simon Siemonsma To: Joshua Lee Subject: Re: FreeBSD compatibility Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:11:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20020802173727.05bdabe2.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <20020802173727.05bdabe2.yid@softhome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208030911.24404.simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 02 August 2002 23:37, Joshua Lee wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:12:28 +0300 > > "Tiago Marques" 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.) Beware however that Linux browser plug-ins would not work with native FreeBSD programs. So if you install KDE you can't use the linux Flash plugin with FreeBSD. The same is true for the cross-over plug-in. Personally I'm considering switching to Gentoo because of this. Simon Siemonsma > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message