Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:00:58 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD. Message-ID: <199708080130.LAA16478@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708080045.TAA04443@nexgen.hiwaay.net> from "dkelly@HiWAAY.net" at "Aug 7, 97 07:45:42 pm"
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dkelly@HiWAAY.net writes: > On at least one occasion I couldn't get a stock distribution of something > to compile under Irix. And I didn't understand where it was failing as my > attempts to fix it failed. Finally tried a long shot, copied the source > files patched for FreeBSD direct to Irix, and it worked perfectly. > > Have observed more than once with Irix when porting apps which support BSD > and SysV targets, the BSD target usually works with less problems. This is a bit off-target for Linux, but I think it's an important observation: most free software was written in a BSD background, and it ports more easily to BSD. Often the System V ports have been done after the event, and though they've been made to work for the immediate environment, they're more fragile. Things are changing. A lot of free software is now being written initially for Linux. I haven't seen this have a negative effect on portability to *BSD, but it is of course having a positive effect on ease of portability to Linux, which I used to place somewhere between System V and BSD. Greg
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