Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 10:12:41 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Duraid <latif2221@home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd and kde Message-ID: <15001.12025.773260.487111@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <82780694@toto.iv>
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Duraid <latif2221@home.com> types: > sorry, lot's of questions... but im tired looking and solving problems with > library mismatch and differences between distributions... i need an already > OPERATING system...and i like the idea that freebsd comes with these things > taken care of.. am i wrong? Nope, you're right. That's one of the main differences between the BSD distributions and the Linux distributions: the BSDs are complete distributions, built and maintained as a whole by one group; they aren't a system distributed by one group built out of parts from other groups. The downside of this is that upgrading one part of the distribution without the rest (in particular, going from one kernel to another) doesn't work very well, and is in general not supported. However, third party applications (aka "ports") are *not* maintained by that group. Any particular one may be maintained by someone in that group, but that's a separate effort by that individual. This means that ports may fail across a given system upgrade, and that binaries built for old systems may not work properly on new ones. Some of this is mitigated by keeping old versions of the libraries available. > Jim Mock wrote: > > of the other stuff you're running on Linux. The only stuff the binary > > compatibility layer (note I didn't say emulation, because it's not > > emulation) is used for is things that are shipped in a Linux binary for > > only. Like Word Perfect. Or Star Office. Or Acrobat Reader. The rest As an aside, Sun has released the source to Star Office and rebadged the project as "Open Office". The port of that is in progress. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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