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Date:      Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:10:28 -0500
From:      "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>
To:        sfarrell+lists@farrell.org
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing
Message-ID:  <35440534.167EB0E7@asme.org>
References:  <199804261854.MAA25063@const.> <354393DC.2781E494@asme.org> <8767jwrse0.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>

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Of course gimp and kde run well on FreeBSD..*we* ported them. I have
ported many programs and it's not always easy.

TBH, some authors even seem proud of making their software Linux
dependant, there are many examples, but of course you won't find those
apps in the ports tree. It is not the general case, of course, some
people do care.

	Pedro.

sfarrell+lists@farrell.org wrote:
> 
> "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> writes:
> 
> > People that develop for Linux rarely take standards into account,
> > besides POSIX was not a priority in the Linux camp until
> > recently. SCO is IMHO the only standard platform.
> 
> Huh?
> 
> Name some recent linux projects that have been successful?  gimp?
> runs fine on freebsd.  kde? runs fine as well.  even linux binaries
> run.
> 
> I do agree that FreeBSD needs to paint itself as a better linux than
> linux -- can't believe i just said that ;-)!! ... but i don't think
> your argument that linux software won't run under freebsd b/c they
> write it linux-specific is tenable.
> 
> --
> 
> Steve Farrell

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