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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!news.uth.tmc.edu!not-for-mail From: David Fenyes <dave@msrad71.med.uth.tmc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Linux -> FreeBSD migration questions Date: 06 Feb 1997 20:21:58 -0600 Organization: UTHSC-Houston, Dept of Radiology Lines: 18 Message-ID: <x6vi851hkp.fsf@msrad71.med.uth.tmc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: msrad71.med.uth.tmc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35345 I'm right now running Linux 2.0.X. Among the applications I depend on are IDL 4.01 (from RSI) and Allegro Common Lisp 4.3. I'm thinking about getting the ApplixWare office suite. For various reasons, I'm considering test-driving FreeBSD. In particular, I'd like to check out it's maintainability & configurability and it's stability under the heavy memory demands of my numerical applications. However, if I can't run IDL, the point is moot. Is the Linux emulation to the point where these complicated applications will run properly? This is not to say I've really had problems under Linux--I just want to operate under the best environment. Thanks, David. -- David Fenyes University of Texas Medical School dave@msrad71.med.uth.tmc.edu Dept. of Radiology