From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 21:12:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA10214 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 21:12:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10202 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 21:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id FAA13012; Thu, 23 May 1996 05:12:25 +0100 (BST) To: Alain FAUCONNET cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 1996 12:38:46 BST." <199605221138.AA17317@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 05:12:24 +0100 Message-ID: <13010.832824744@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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