From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 08:35:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13553 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13545 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:35:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05095; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:29:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199808131529.LAA05095@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux? In-Reply-To: <199808131455.KAA04329@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca> from GR Gaudreau at "Aug 13, 98 10:41:11 am" To: grgaud@sprint.ca (GR Gaudreau) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:29:25 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG GR Gaudreau wrote: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > questions... speaking of which: what do you mean by "ports"? The only ports > I know are the serial and printer ports in the back of my box. I'd really > like to learn to do this right. Cao. "port" is something akin to a source level RedHat .rpm, only it doesn't have the source code -- only instructions about how to get it. (Machine readable instructions, of course.) It also has patches, a Makefile, and stuff like that. There's an intro to them on the website with a link title something like "Ports -- a swell way to install optional software". A package is like a binary .rpm. A "port" can make a package, and/or install the software directly. Dave -- Bedford County, PA -- 47,000 polite, friendly Appalachians, 4,000 of whom have concealed-carry permits. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message