From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 26 21:13:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05759 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05685 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from giffuni.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.38]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA10477; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:14:12 +0500 Message-ID: <35440534.167EB0E7@asme.org> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:10:28 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing References: <199804261854.MAA25063@const.> <354393DC.2781E494@asme.org> <8767jwrse0.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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" 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message