Re: need help choosing appropriate BSD distro

On 24 Jun 2007 21:47:57 GMT, "Joachim Schipper"
<jdNoOtSPAMschipper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most well-written applications would work on any *BSD, but not all.

Are most Unix-compatible (this might not be the best choice of words
for this) programs able to work in Linux and BSD?

I understand that Sun Microsystems is either making a version of
Solaris that will run Linux programs (and maybe BSD programs--heard
this secondhand) or doing something to support Linux programs. I just
wondered how close all of these somewhat similar but also very
different (in some respects, at least, like the actual code) operating
systems are to each other.
.

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