[mohaa] curious behavior

[Matthew Hall]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 JNagle at franuniv.edu wrote:

> >ports are a god send, and upgrading is a breeze... can be done very, very
> >easily remotely
>
> WHat do you mean by 'ports are a god send'.....Windows and linux BOTH have
> ports...so can you explain what you meant? Is BSD commands almost the same

The 'ports' tree. A list of software that has been 'port'ed to work under
FreeBSD, and in order to install this software, you just type 'make',
'make install'. Done. It will go, download it for you, apply necessary
patches, compile, and install itself. Need to upgrade the port later?
Just use portupgrade. Will do it all for you.

> as UNIX/Linux? Is the programs that work on LInux (like game servers) work
> on FreeBSD with no difference?

Pretty much. FreeBSD has very good Linux emulation.

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