Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:49:13 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: "SPEAKEASY <bvagnoni>" <bvagnoni@speakeasy.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <3AE49549.442D558@urx.com> References: <20010423143547.A3982@cec.wustl.edu> <BHEOJOMCFODELNKHPGJEKEEECEAA.bvagnoni@speakeasy.net> <20010423145422.A4142@cec.wustl.edu>
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Andrew Hesford wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:45:33PM -0400, SPEAKEASY <bvagnoni> wrote: > > Dear Everyone; > > > > What about compatiability with the Linux world will I be able to run stuff > > compiled for Linux on freebsd without to much trouble? > > > > What about hardware compatibility just from reading the package it seems > > that freebsd seems to support more hardware, is this true? > > > > > > Sincerely > > > > Brian > > I've never had trouble with Linux programs under FreeBSD. You might not > get the newest games running perfectly, but hey, this isn't an operating > system for playing sophisticated games. In fact, that's what windows is > good for: games. Linux is only half-assed for games. I have a program that I am interested in called Wordtrans. It translates words between language pairs. The maintainers produce rpm's and deb's. When it goes to install, it can't find some library's. I can use locate and they are there. I have the source and it will build but with a lot of manual work. It is setup to build Qt/KDE modules. There are problems building the KDE-2 modules but I am currently using the Qt-2 module. How did you deal with the dependancies when you tried to use Linux programs? Cleaning up the makefiles will take time that using the rpm's would avoid. That is only true if I can install them. The default languages are spanish<>english and german<>english but they really aren't limited to these two pairs. You can turn on "watch clipboard" and it will translate what you select with the mouse. Kent > > Hardware compatibility, if you ask me, is on par with Linux. The major > difference between us and Linux is that we don't put drivers in the > kernel that say "EXPERIMENTAL"... that's what -CURRENT is for. This > means, for example, that you won't get ACPI in -STABLE, but the Linux > kernel does have "support" for ACPI. However, it's barely functional, > and can't be used to manage power consumption yet. > > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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