From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 21:10:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88DB916A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:10:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from beru.its.uow.edu.au (beru.its.uow.edu.au [130.130.68.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B3E43FD7 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:10:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from psl02@uow.edu.au) Received: from beru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beru.its.uow.edu.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAD5AkpB010333 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:10:46 +1100 (EST) Received: from chac.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.37.3]) by beru.its.uow.edu.au (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:10:45 +1100 (EST) Received: (from sendmail@localhost) by chac.its.uow.edu.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) id hAD5AjuW005402 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:10:45 +1100 (EST) Received: from mirapoint.uow.edu.au (mirapoint.uow.edu.au[130.130.68.27]) by chac.its.uow.edu.au (UWSMTPD 1.5.2) with ESMTP id 3347024.5378; Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:10:40 +1100 Received: from mirapoint.uow.edu.au (localhost.uow.edu.au [127.0.0.1]) by mirapoint.uow.edu.au (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id ADY53529; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:10:38 +1100 (EST) Received: from 130.130.8.206 by mirapoint.uow.edu.au (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with HTTP/1.1; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:10:37 +1100 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:10:37 +1100 From: Philip Sydney Lavers To: ports@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Webmail Mirapoint Direct 3.3.7-GR MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <29fc3146.e1f325fe.8454c00@mirapoint.uow.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MessageID: 3347024.5378 X-EnvelopeFrom: 3347024.5378 X-EnvelopeTo: 3347024.5378 Subject: Linux compatibility problems, 4.8 and 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 05:10:51 -0000 Gentlemen, I am a long term user of FreeBSD. recently i have migrated through 4.2, 4.4 and 4.7 with wonderful usefulness except that I have never got CUPS or anything else to drive my CanonS400SP printer. I have a linux machine in my network just to print things on the Canon. This was just a nuisance. Now I have four new machines with 4.8 in one and 5.1 in the other three on which I need to run some distributed processing routines. To my dismay, Linux compatibility and everything that depends on it fails both on installation and when I try manual ports. Apache ant also fails in the same way. Also Clusterit would not install. I am phycisist, not really a computer person, but I need something like FreeBSd because my trusty DEC Alpha has finally died. The machines that I am using are a PentiumIII and three AMD Athlons. I would be grateful to receive any suggestions. I have found nothing useful on the mailing lists. I hope you can help me. Regards, and thanks for this wonderful OS, Philip Lavers.