From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 12:17: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610EE37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hughes-fe01.direcway.com (hughes-fe01.direcway.com [66.82.20.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971AC43E6A for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmprice@direcway.com) Received: from jerusalem ([66.82.51.234]) by hughes-fe01.direcway.com (InterMail vK.4.04.00.00 201-232-137 license dcc4e84cb8fc01ca8f8654c982ec8526) with ESMTP id <20020924191724.XBZJ7479.hughes-fe01@jerusalem> for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:17:24 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Weston M. Price" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:08:47 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <1032894230.c3420740jud@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <1032894230.c3420740jud@myrealbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200209241508.47491.wmprice@direcway.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, =09One of the major caveats to the FreeBSD--Linux compatibility is Java=20 applications. This may just be in my case, but I am having absolutely no = luck=20 getting a lot of Java based applications to work on FreeBSD that work jus= t=20 fine on Solaris and Linux. Also, multimedia stuff is also problematic.=20 So, if you are a serious Java developer and like using an IDE other than = Emacs=20 I would seriously consider before moving to FreeBSD on the desktop. Regards, Weston On Tuesday 24 September 2002 07:03 pm, Jud wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Trulsson > To: MET > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:37:50 +0200 > Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:24:48PM -0400, MET wrote: > [snip] > > > 2) Since FreeBSD offers its 'Linux Compatibility' - will that allow m= e > > to use programs that were written on and for a Red Hat version of Lin= ux? > > With the exceptions of device drivers and things like that, yes. > > > FreeBSD is what I know and love, but now I'm starting to use it as a > > desktop (KDE 3 / XFree86 4.2) and I just want to make sure that I'm n= ot > > missing out on people's applications (home based) that seem to only b= e > > written for Linux. > > Most Linux applications should run fine on FreeBSD. Some exceptions > undoubtedly exist but those are indeed exceptions rather than the rule. > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > Just a quick caveat to the generally true statement > that Erik makes - (1) If an app hasn't been ported, > that may mean there are difficulties getting it to > run under FreeBSD. For instance, I'd love to try > Valgrind, Kylix and VMWare 3, but I'm guessing their > absence from ports means no one's been able to get > them working right on FreeBSD yet. (2) I generally > find it's best to use the port where one exists - the > port has been done by someone who knows a lot more > than I do about FreeBSD and the ported app. > > OTOH, once in a while there's a nice app that no one's > gotten around to porting yet - e.g., the Psi Jabber > client, before Jonathan Chen was nice enough to do the > honors. Or a port will be packaged as part of the > GNOME or KDE environments, and I'd prefer to use it > without all the baggage; this was true of the > Rox-filer file manager, but (happily) no longer. > > Jud > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message