Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 20:49:56 -0700 From: Frank Fenderbender <frankfenderbender@council124.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: question re: your system's primary use? Message-ID: <6D66F411-647A-4CE3-87CD-B837B6D2F43D@council124.org> In-Reply-To: <1446C6EE-3DD7-4311-98F2-97250D4702EE@council124.org> References: <CANx7MpfDQJEUsjo_SSYqnExagj30NAAD8cPYiR3mDZq_ztor8Q@mail.gmail.com> <43760917-5FAA-4C75-A4D2-923A5EA0E624@council124.org> <2d7ff5f5-603f-004d-31fc-14eef658997e@holgerdanske.com> <162715a2-dc44-0555-29b9-50ca75af46e6@kicp.uchicago.edu> <85694074-E3B1-4AC3-A742-FEB8BD4BA9B0@council124.org> <1446C6EE-3DD7-4311-98F2-97250D4702EE@council124.org>
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Prefatory note to question (skippable) I am trying to assess, w/o much success, on whether development = on and verification for=20 FreeBSD for software applications is realistic. I realize that the 'questions' list is primarily for solving = install and configuration bumps,=20 however, I trust the wealth of experience of its membership. If I can tally the ways to which the platform is being used, = perhaps I can predict better how my time=20 would be spent in terms of configuring, tweaking, fixing, = ratio'ed with time spent developing and testing=20 cross-platform/platform-independent code sets." My first engineering job was in 1989 at Tektronix, where we = worked on the Standard Tektronix Interface (STI)=20 layered above the graphics engine on Tek workstations (613x; = 43xx XD88) based in Motorola 68020/88000=20 chipsets beneath the UTek operating system, which was the = Tektronix on-board hybrid-UNIX supporting=20 both 4.2BSD and System V commands. I was verifying that STI's Fortran-callable C and C-callable = Fortran code had identical results. In a way,=20 this use is similar to what I would be using a BSD system for = today. We used stistdio.c and stistdio.f as places where the varying = Unix ioctl commands (and equivalents)=20 could be set by customers using unsupported platforms. Many, if not most list users' questions seem specific to build, = dependency, bug or omission workarounds,=20 special-case installs, and/or conflictive add-on settings, the = actual usage is a bit obscured or oft-unmentioned=20 w/r/t the question(s)/answer(s). So, for my "question" can you just check what use your system = has for you? I hope to ascertain whether anyone exists is using it as I hope = to, and that will tell me if I will have commonality=20 within a list sub-group? If you can suggest another list or = forum, which exists for using FreeBSD desktop as=20 a development-test environment, I would be very grateful. Question Do you use your FreeBSD system as: [ ] server [ ] firewall [ ] development-test environment [ ] daily desktop (email/browser) [ ] other (rough detail?) Thanks, "frank" frankfenderbender@council124.org
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