From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 26 21:22:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06859 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:21:09 -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 VAA06760 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:20:35 -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 AAA10497; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:23:31 +0500 Message-ID: <3544075C.446B9B3D@asme.org> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:19:40 -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: allen campbell , 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 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. > 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