Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:11:24 +0200 From: Simon Siemonsma <simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl> To: Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD compatibility Message-ID: <200208030911.24404.simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020802173727.05bdabe2.yid@softhome.net> References: <LAW2-F79bkfYNnAt8si0001cc59@hotmail.com> <20020802173727.05bdabe2.yid@softhome.net>
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On Friday 02 August 2002 23:37, Joshua Lee wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:12:28 +0300 > > "Tiago Marques" <motinhas_1@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I'm a user of Linux, and i do some programming for college, some related > > with sockets, processes, and all kinds of linux system programming. > > I've been thinking about moving to FreeBSD but i would like to know if > > the programs i do in Linux will be compatible with FreeBSD. > > Most of them will be compatable. The areas of different compatability would > be solvable by a standard configure script. Binaries are also usually > compatable, and the emulation is very fast - there's no noticable > difference. As for sockets, though I've never ported TCP/IP code between > the two, Linux's TCP/IP stack was originally lifted from BSD. (Though > FreeBSD's implementation is not only more mature, BSD having the very first > implementation of a TCP/IP stack under ARPA's auspices, it has become > better tuned over time and is considered one of the fastest.) Beware however that Linux browser plug-ins would not work with native FreeBSD programs. So if you install KDE you can't use the linux Flash plugin with FreeBSD. The same is true for the cross-over plug-in. Personally I'm considering switching to Gentoo because of this. Simon Siemonsma > > > Also, i'm a regular user, but not very experienced in Linux, i just know > > my way around, not much more. Do you think i'll be able to use FreeBSD > > easily or is it more complicated to mantain and admin ? > > FreeBSD is more difficult to *install* than most major Linux distributions, > but easier to *maintain* due to BSD inits and the ports system, among other > things. (The latter means no more RPM-style DLL hell.) You'll find > eventually that BSD is easier to use than Linux in many tasks because it is > better designed. > > 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
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