Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:47:15 +0100 From: Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Decision Message-ID: <4D318943.90409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikFM63cZ=E0BjDFbYg3d9=BOcwqfdnq5OnbgFPS@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110115003535.75A7010656BF@hub.freebsd.org> <591451.38501.qm@web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <AANLkTikFM63cZ=E0BjDFbYg3d9=BOcwqfdnq5OnbgFPS@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/15/2011 11:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips<anti_spam256@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > <snip> > > > >> One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX "dialect" than most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros as well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking. One thing I also ran into is that md5sum (Debian) ~= md5 (BSD). I suppose you are supposed to use SHA2 these days anyway :P >> >> > <rant> > > I'd like to jump in and say that the 'dialect' that the GNU utilities > use often have a very strange interpretation of POSIX. Many porters > (for example) have to spend huge amounts of time repairing GNUisms in > install scripts; for example when I was helping to port Scilab > (Bashisms in '['), and some work I've done on Busybox has meant I've > had to work around GNUisms in sed and find. > > On the risk of starting a flame war, I believe that the GNU folks are > guilty of exactly the same embracing and extension tactics (however > unwittingly) as everyone's favourite software corp. > > </rant> > > Chris > > How is the hardware support on FreeBSD?
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