Re: Primary Differences: FreeBSD/Linux

From: David King (ketralnis_at_ketralnis.dyndns.org)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:39:44 GMT

netcat has its own port in /usr/ports/net/netcat, so yes, it works

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Tom Ryerson wrote:

> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 05:24:15 GMT
> From: Tom Ryerson <dont@like.spam>
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
> Subject: Re: Primary Differences: FreeBSD/Linux
>
>
>
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> >
> >
> > Tom Ryerson <dont@like.spam> writes:
> >
> >> Kirk Job-Sluder wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Tom Ryerson <dont@like.spam> wrote:
> >> >> What will be my biggest surprise?
> >> >>
> >> >> Am running Debian/Bash now.
> >> >
> >> > A depressing ammount of really useful software is written with linuxisms
> >> > rather than portability in mind. Some key examples being CRM114 (lots
> >> > of scripts that assume everything gets dumped into /usr/bin), Firefox
> >> > (bad DNS resolving code) and OpenOffice (have not successfully gotten
> >> > the Linux binaries to work.)
> >>
> >> I can live without those apps, long as screen and mc and nc will work.
> >
> > screen, check.
> > mc, assuming that's "Midnight Commander," check.
>
> Yes.
>
> > nc, I don't know.
> >
>
> Little TCP tool. Much better than telnet for scripts, and faster, and you
> can do a lot with it. Just needs libc6.
>
> Errr...Does FreeBSD *use* libc6? But I'd be surprised if it didn't compile.
>
> Might have to tweak the Makefile/config script...
>
>
> Package: netcat
> Priority: optional
> Section: net
> Installed-Size: 186
> Maintainer: Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 1.10-20
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-2)
> Filename: pool/main/n/netcat/netcat_1.10-20_i386.deb
> Size: 63316
> MD5sum: 1df5e9f1b201b9f93d10be04fff8365d
> Description: TCP/IP swiss army knife
> A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network
> connections using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable
> "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other
> programs and scripts. At the same time it is a feature-rich network
> debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of
> connection you would need and has several interesting built-in
> capabilities.
>
> >> But that is not good news.
> >
> > It's really not that bad. Take these specific examples; crm114 hasn't
> > been ported to FreeBSD, but I started working on it this evening, and
> > it doesn't seem to be a big deal. In fact, it takes a prefix
> > argument, just the same way that FreeBSD's ports system does, that
> > indicates where the executables should go. Firefox looks up DNS names
> > with IPv6 first if available, which is often, um, unhelpful; but I'm
> > not sure that's FreeBSD's fault. And OpenOffice has FreeBSD-native
> > versions that run fine.
>
> Excellent. Thanks.
>
>
> Tom
>
>

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