Steve,
"but you guys understand that FreeBSD is not the same thing as Linux?"
We are running simulation software,etc. on Linux right now that was written for other Unix variants, with nothing more than a recompile with different system libraries.
What difficulties do you know of that would prohibit porting Linux apps to BSD? Nearly all of the guts of our software is console window based, using Java, Qt, Tk for any graphical interfaces. These have proven to be highly portable apps, running on Windows sometimes.
Most of the modern "Linux crowd" I know are Unix people who have installed Linux as a way to run Unix on their PC's. They were already familiar with Unix beforehand and write very little software which is not written with C++,C, perl, tcl/tk, Java, etc. Most are tired of Windows and are all getting tired of fighting with PC's and dual-boot configuration administration. MacOS X offers the potential to run popular Mac software and Unix-based software without the dual-boot aspect. A turn-key solution that many people are interested in. The hardcore Linux people are still Linux people but many others are actually Unix-people who will write/port code on any Unix machine with the same enthusiasm.
Cheers,
Norm |
