From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 12: 3:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CB637B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30A943E65 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from jud [12.33.164.6] by myrealbox.com with NetMail ModWeb Module; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:03:50 -0400 Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list From: "Jud" To: ertr1013@student.uu.se Cc: met@uberstats.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:03:50 -0400 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: jud MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1032894230.c3420740jud@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Erik Trulsson To: MET Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:37:50 +0200 Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux || Possibly wrong list On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:24:48PM -0400, MET wrote: [snip] >=20 > 2) Since FreeBSD offers its 'Linux Compatibility' - will that allow me > to use programs that were written on and for a Red Hat version of Linux? With the exceptions of device drivers and things like that, yes. >=20 > FreeBSD is what I know and love, but now I'm starting to use it as a > desktop (KDE 3 / XFree86 4.2) and I just want to make sure that I'm not > missing out on people's applications (home based) that seem to only be > written for Linux. Most Linux applications should run fine on FreeBSD. Some exceptions undoubtedly exist but those are indeed exceptions rather than the rule. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Just a quick caveat to the generally true statement=20 that Erik makes - (1) If an app hasn't been ported, that may mean there are difficulties getting it to run under FreeBSD. For instance, I'd love to try Valgrind, Kylix and VMWare 3, but I'm guessing their absence from ports means no one's been able to get them working right on FreeBSD yet. (2) I generally find it's best to use the port where one exists - the port has been done by someone who knows a lot more than I do about FreeBSD and the ported app. OTOH, once in a while there's a nice app that no one's gotten around to porting yet - e.g., the Psi Jabber client, before Jonathan Chen was nice enough to do the honors. Or a port will be packaged as part of the GNOME or KDE environments, and I'd prefer to use it without all the baggage; this was true of the Rox-filer file manager, but (happily) no longer. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message