Re: ANNOUNCE: ComOS 3.1.4 released for PortMaster

Brian Tao (taob@io.org)
Mon, 25 Sep 1995 14:10:19 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Elya Kurktchi <elya@INETWORLD.NET>
> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 12:26:48 -0700
> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: ComOS 3.1.4 released for PortMaster
>
> For one thing, FreeBSD (for example) is available to anyone and the
> source code is right there. It shouldn't be too hard for Livingston
> to tweek their code to run on, say, FreeBSD unix since if they
> encounter *any* problems, all they have to do is look at the unix
> source code and figure it out.

I've found that for 95% of the source out there that has either a
BSD/OS Makefile entry or a FreeBSD one (but not both) will compile on
the other platform with little or no changes to the source. There are
some gotchas with BSD/OS 2.0 and its shared libs which preclude binary
compatibility, but that sort of thing can be solved with a simple
recompile. I've got a dozen BSD/OS machines here and soon some
FreeBSD ones as well. I am currently using the beta Windows
pmconsole, but a native *BSD one would be greatly preferred.

> For those of you who think we live in an all-SPARC world, there are
> quite a bit of people who used PC's out here, some shareware UNIX OS,
> and happen to be successful ISP's.

I find it difficult to accept that the poster who started the
troll could be ignorant enough to believe everything he said. I've
had to admin SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, BSD/OS and FreeBSD boxes, and
the two BSD's are by far my favourites. Now if only there was a
NetBSD port to the R8000... :)

--
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"