From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 4:35:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cgmd76206.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A18E637B503 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 04:35:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by cgmd76206.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 454EA3B0; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:35:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:35:33 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_M=E5rtensson?= Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux - FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010219133533.C4233@cgmd76206.chello.nl> References: <1612544.982583313423.JavaMail.nobody@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1612544.982583313423.JavaMail.nobody@localhost>; from Spammer@ebox.tninet.se on Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:48:33PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:48:33PM +0100, Björn Mårtensson wrote: > Are the commands the same or are they more like the Unix-commands ? The "user" commands will feel the same, besides of some options you might miss, or suddenly appear. For "admin" commands it will be a little different (user-editing, security and so on), but if you read the handbook (or keep it close to you) you will find your most questions in there. > And all the programs I've got for Linux (Slackware) can I just > recompile them in FreeBSD and get them to work properly there too ? Maybe yes, maybe no. There is a chance they recompile without problem, this is normal for the general unix-programs. There is a chance you need to tweak some paths in makefiles (/usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib), this is due to the difference in approach on how the layout of the filesystem should be for non-base programs. And there is a chance that you won't get it compiled at all, because it uses linux-specific things (#include ). As you see, YMMV. But don't forget in this that the binary programs might work easily without a recompile under the Linux-(not emulation but it had a different name)-mode. Enjoy! Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message