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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 01:03:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Brian O'Connor" <boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: development environments
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On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Brian O'Connor wrote:

For development, FreeBSD is quite strong.  The build environment is very
tight and standardized.  

> SGI has a great varsity pack deal that gives us high level commercial
> C++/C,fortran,cosmo(java) and ada development packages.

You get all that for free from us! :)  We have the Sun JDK ported over,
c/c++ is stock with the system, and fortran & ada can be had from the
ports tree.

> Is FreeBSD limited to gcc and other GNU tools?(we have found them very
> buggy) 

Depends on which gcc you use.  2.7.x comes default on FreeBSD 2.2.x
systems, and -current will probably move to gcc 2.8 when it gets stable. 
There is a gcc28 port if you want it tho.  The stock berkeley cc/c++ is
also provided. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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