Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:19:40 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Cc: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Message-ID: <3544075C.446B9B3D@asme.org> References: <199804261854.MAA25063@const.> <354393DC.2781E494@asme.org> <8767jwrse0.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
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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. > BTW, that is NOT my argument: I'm speaking of the OS, and Linuxs lack of respect to standards. I have an old linux manual around "installation and getting started" that says that POSIX was not in their priority list. AFAIK they claim to by SYSV-like, but they don't have poll(), and there are no plans to follow the single UNIX specification. Let's not talk more about Linux...it's depressing. Pedro. > -- > > Steve Farrell > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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