FreeBSD Decision

[Alessandro Baggi]

On 01/15/2011 11:55 AM, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 15 January 2011 01:56, James Phillips<anti_spam256 at yahoo.ca>  wrote:
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>> 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
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> <rant>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> </rant>
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> Chris
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How is the hardware support on FreeBSD?