Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:57:29 GMT From: Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos <miguel@anjos.strangled.net> To: emailgrant@gmail.com, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current Gentoo user Message-ID: <200712161957.lBGJvTk2034995@satan.anjos.strangled.net> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10712132026p21717597wc6e592a1a19dad4e@mail.gmail.com>
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> From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> > > I just had a search through the FreeBSD ports list and just about > everything I user is listed there. gnucash, gimp, firefox, etc. Does > that mean they are work perfectly on FreeBSD? > > - Grant Of course... those aren't Linux apps, they work flawlessly on lots of operating systems (even on Windows!). Add mplayer to that and lots of other closer-to-the-hardware apps. Java also works fine and native. Anything you see on the ports collection will work, generally only closed-source apps need Linux emulation. Open-source ones run native. Even lots of closed-source apps run just fine in Linux emulation. Some vendors even provide FreeBSD-specific software, such as the nvidia driver for FreeBSD. Greetings, Miguel
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