Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 19:45:42 -0500 From: dkelly@HiWAAY.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD. Message-ID: <199708080045.TAA04443@nexgen.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> of "Thu, 07 Aug 1997 11:04:25 MDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.970807110235.2268A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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Brett Taylor writes: > > As noted in other posts, you should check the mailing list archives. One > more thing that I think FreeBSD has over Linux is the ports archive. > Typing "make install" instead of trying to port every single application > that you wanna use is VERY NICE. I think we're up to 1300 ports or > something now. Its so usefull that its the first place I look when needing software for SGI and Sun systems too. Find something I want, and "make fetch", and its here. Usually go ahead and install the port on my FreeBSD system and learn how its supposed to work before moving it to the other guys. 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. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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