From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 15:32:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 460E21065695 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:32:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wearabnet@yahoo.ca) Received: from web111302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (web111302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [67.195.15.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16F938FC3A for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:32:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 48935 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Feb 2010 15:32:20 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.ca; s=s1024; t=1266507140; bh=lxaggp8InVAHwpvkWg8664LQMWq2SDa+rcxHHJTO8zU=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=081w+qKfdAItX0kbhM8YqNCQ9UipCrdNYGa5voqHveYVHwRX2+OY4aMroBJx3fjeSjj/u4IkHnjSGiD4uE4orYAwUR4elDF4jJYEnvQxTIgw3xvBu2rNz7LWXuyCWbH757rYXPHGCaQGfcB4eyEedRaVkVerUYxT6AOdMnl5sQc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=XOnfmriCgCV1UPtjMD7Vd/aIpM19MbIdJhsuGo14YhqekKwN2ldFiOKFDPOtG7kkgQwfyuOrT/hG02luxCjrguWsM1wY1aPlNvMDt1wjwGpaR0yARvHsyxYNu14mq545H8f13yLruXZ5SUDNyNCF9n6eVfzhXZTO5DZiCGOxMg8=; Message-ID: <242758.48200.qm@web111302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: pQwkkncVM1k3W6MwnoqBLJlin1hQGHVNFewGK.Zl6PIap9023oEMYd7Bx3r_57zerEp9A8lLsEnpQgj8EWce94wYA2VOoW.1NCrMAJDc2jBPGsROVt67ptbNGwEQZrO2yLkmQY4mr_64bsbmPGPwY1zRbbVI7f2BY0vC4UOmyG6e7KpIpPDf_QraVqVuyO_yMYBiDZsbxDVYHyFOtbPGBjfKhamUqaPacf5qYm1NGE6JPEFc7Eb.CcsdFTzPHqJYGBtcrBBXNK7.Vr.iDNI210GHG85kuXAR8dhhoQMhGnuf3YxQiCCYd.Q_5J1ODZpOKJrycHhr9sHRmNhFUB.xTxeAFdk- Received: from [89.211.43.2] by web111302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:20 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/300.3 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 References: <87vdduespd.fsf@kobe.laptop> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:20 -0800 (PST) From: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <87vdduespd.fsf@kobe.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:32:21 -0000 Hi, ----- Original Message ---- > From: Giorgos Keramidas > To: Masoom Shaikh > Cc: freebsd-questions > Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 1:36:30 PM > Subject: Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:09:54 +0530, Masoom Shaikh > wrote: > > here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 > > > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html > > > > certain statements are very impressive in those slides like "Build any > > NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment" > > $ uname -s -m > > Linux i686 > > $ cd netbsd-src > > $ ./build.sh -m sparc64 release > > > > develop and test 32 bits apps on 64 bit env > > cc -m 32 > > > > does FreeBSD has those two features ? > > NetBSD needs a *very* minimal set of POSIX tools to build, e.g. you can > get away with an sh(1) utility and a pretty basic make(1) tool. They > have really done a magnificent job at constructing a build system that > can bootstrap itself from a tiny set of build tools. > > FreeBSD also has _some_ of the necessary build glue to do similar sort > of stuff, but AFAIK we only support cross-building from one FreeBSD > architecture to another FreeBSD architecture. So you need to have at > least *some* version of FreeBSD to build another. How about these bench vs FreeBSD?! http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img11.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img15.html Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/