Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:23:30 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: "Jesse O. Glidden" <gorfgar@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Considering FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103021219030.12186-100000@java2.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010302124126.00a8df00@pop.netzero.net>
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On Mar 2, Jesse O. Glidden wrote: >I am having trouble making things work on my Linux box like they do on the >schools Solaris box. For instance when I do something simple like >ls -d >the only thing I get is >. Nothing wrong with that. Does the same thing on FreeBSD and on ... Solaris $ uname -a SunOS bloodhound 5.6 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20 $ ls -d . $ >And when I try to add aliases to my .profile in my home directory, nothing >works! Probably because Linux defaults to bash which uses .bash_profile, not .profile >I have never been able to get my 3Com pcimodem to work under Linux. >Does FreeBSD have these same problems? Don't know. >Also, does FreeBSD have a dual-boot utility like LILO, because until I get >these problems worked out, I absolutely have to keep Windows running (which >I would do anyway because I have 2 hds). Yes >Linux is just not behaving like Solaris! FreeBSD is even less like Solaris (thank god). But changes to .profile will work under FreeBSD if you use sh or ksh as your shell. And having mentioned that just switching to ksh is probably what you want to do since that is Solaris' default shell. Won't make ls -d print more than a dot though. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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