On 15 January 2011 11:47, Alessandro Baggi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/15/2011 11:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> >> >>> >>> One thing to keep in mind is that BSD speaks a different POSIX "dialect" >>> than most Linux distros (though that is likely true between Linux distros as >>> well). This means things like NFS/NIS won't work without tweaking. One thing >>> I also ran into is that md5sum (Debian) ~= md5 (BSD). I suppose you are >>> supposed to use SHA2 these days anyway :P >>> >>> >> >> <rant> >> >> I'd like to jump in and say that the 'dialect' that the GNU utilities >> use often have a very strange interpretation of POSIX. Many porters >> (for example) have to spend huge amounts of time repairing GNUisms in >> install scripts; for example when I was helping to port Scilab >> (Bashisms in '['), and some work I've done on Busybox has meant I've >> had to work around GNUisms in sed and find. >> >> On the risk of starting a flame war, I believe that the GNU folks are >> guilty of exactly the same embracing and extension tactics (however >> unwittingly) as everyone's favourite software corp. >> >> </rant> >> >> Chris >> >> > > How is the hardware support on FreeBSD?
Pretty good: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html It's also generally _very_ well documented by someone or other. Chris _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
