From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 15:57:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA08023 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 15:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lib.amu.edu.pl (bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl [150.254.100.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA08007 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 15:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bogusz@localhost) by lib.amu.edu.pl (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA26675; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 22:58:38 +0100 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 22:58:38 +0100 (MET) From: Bogusz Jelinski To: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: FreeBSD - Linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 wb2oyc@cyberenet.net wrote: > But, I expected some on the list may be sensitive, maybe overly so, to > any comparison. And, if you go back to my original message on this, > you'll see that I stated in plain English, that I did NOT consider ANY > differences in the internals or architecture itself between the two. > I'll say it again. All I said was that these applications that work > flawlessly on Linux, work poorly or not at all, on FreeBSD. Period. > I don't care a wit about the differences in the OS's themselves, and > can't really talk about that since I don't have the expertise. I don't > care about the techno mumbo jumbo, and I said so. My concern is about > these few app's that work on one, and not the other. Again, period... > They both have their warts; they're Un*x. > There is no FlagShip for FreeBSD (Clipper precompiler). No commercial org acceptes emulation, so the only platform I have been installing it on is Linux. Is there any more commercial software for Linux that doesn't run on FreeBSD? Bogusz