Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 05:12:24 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Alain FAUCONNET <af@biomath.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Message-ID: <13010.832824744@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 1996 12:38:46 BST." <199605221138.AA17317@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr>
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Alain FAUCONNET wrote in message ID <199605221138.AA17317@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr>: > * Availability of pre-compiled binaries and ports for non-commercial software: > Linux +10, FreeBSD 0 One comment about this. Linux is schitzophrenic (or however you spell it). It has a mixture of Sys V and BSD in it, and that sometimes leads to porting problems. Perhaps there are so many pre-compiled `.tgz' files for linux as it's more difficult to port s/w to linux than to a BSD derrivative? Quite a few of the ports that I've seen done (and are in the ports collection) don't even need patching, they compile out of the box, and without needing special ``FreeBSD'' ifdefs in the Makefiles or source code... It helps to have a heritage... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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