On 17 Mar 2006, at 19:26, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
You can mostly assume that if it works for Linux, then it will work for FreeBSD and all other BSDs and even Solaris (and vice-versa). This isn´t true for Mac OS X. Althought it is based on FreeBSD, it is very, very different from standard unix boxes.
It shares at least 90% of the rtl with the other BSD's, so it isn't that different at the basic unix level. It's mainly different if you want to use OS X-specific functionality (like its gui environment instead of X11). Regarding serial port stuff: none of the Macs which can run the latest version of Mac OS X still has a serial port. There are USB-serial converters out there though, and their drivers (.e.g from Keyspan) create a regular serial port device in /dev which works identically to those under other unixes.
It's not because other interfaces are available, that there is no compatibility with the traditional unix way of working.
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