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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!decwrl!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!gw1.att.com!nntpa!not-for-mail From: dyson@inuxs.inh.att.com (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux as server Message-ID: <DFKs0F.6Dn@nntpa.cb.att.com> Sender: news@nntpa.cb.att.com (Netnews Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: inuxs.inh.att.com Organization: AT&T References: <43ca72$2sq@fu-berlin.de> <449sa5$di@knobel.gun.de> <44bnmn$amp@news.uni-paderborn.de> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 17:45:50 GMT Lines: 20 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6509 comp.os.linux.misc:61735 In article <44bnmn$amp@news.uni-paderborn.de>, Thorsten Kukuk <jkuku1@uni-paderborn.de> wrote: >Andreas Klemm (andreas@knobel.gun.de) wrote: > >: FreeBSD is pretty standard BSD. Don't worry about that, it's >: a feature ;-) > >My experience with FreeBSD is, it's difficult to port to it. >With the most software, I hadn't any problems to compile them >under Linux, but for FreeBSD you have to use the ports (if they >exists). > That is very interesting considering much software is ORIGINALLY written on BSD-like systems. I "port" software to FreeBSD all of the time. I have also "ported" things to SVR3/4 type systems also, usually with no major problem. I guess that it is just the target OS that you are familiar with... :-) John dyson@freebsd.org