From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 23:42:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 484B71065670 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 23:42:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gull@gull.us) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2138FC15 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 23:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg7 with SMTP id 7so891039eyg.13 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:42:10 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.53.1 with SMTP id f1mr787040eec.29.1299280536505; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.14.119.1 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:15:36 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [128.95.17.209] In-Reply-To: <98DE64E1-EE7F-4B52-A204-A2AF70005FDE@lafn.org> References: <5F4DD89C-5F3B-46B8-BA91-A25B8BF11EEB@lafn.org> <20110304224553.GD28710@comcast.net> <98DE64E1-EE7F-4B52-A204-A2AF70005FDE@lafn.org> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:15:36 -0800 Message-ID: From: David Brodbeck To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: Purchased Binaries 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: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:42:12 -0000 On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: > Pretty much I will have the real software on Monday and will need to get = it up and going very quickly. =A0I want to use FreeBSD because all the othe= r parts of what he needs I already have running on various FreeBSD servers.= =A0Also, I very much like the FreeBSD approach (like to pf) of don't break= things that previously worked without workarounds so that production syste= ms are not killed. The only problem I can see -- assuming it runs at all -- is that any tech support contracts for the software will likely assume you're running it under Linux. They may not be happy trying to troubleshoot it under FreeBSD and may want to blame the OS for any problems you encounter. I try to run commercial software on "officially supported" operating systems just for that reason.