On 4 March 2011, at 14:45, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Fri 04 Mar 2011 at 13:24:32 PST Doug Hardie wrote: >> I have a client who has purchased some software. I don't know anything >> much about it yet other than it claims to run on Debian and CentOS. I >> suspect its binaries. I will have access to things like the developer, >> name etc. on Monday. However, thats when he needs to know if I can make >> it run on FreeBSD. > > Are you bidding against a Linux guy for this job?
No. I have the job. > > That doesn't sound like a reasonable demand. Does he want your final > answer on Monday, or do you think you can buy some time for further > investigation He is under the gun and needs to get this working last week..... > if you tell him about FreeBSD's support for the Linux ABI, > etc.? He is pretty much non-technical and will go with any solution I believe will work. > > Maybe bring in a FreeBSD laptop and do a demo where you install some > Linux binary from the web and show him that it runs? (Be sure to > practice the demo beforehand!) I still wouldn't give him an ironclad > guarantee that the software he bought will run too, but perhaps the demo > will raise his confidence level enough to give you a chance to find out. Pretty much I will have the real software on Monday and will need to get it up and going very quickly. I want to use FreeBSD because all the other parts of what he needs I already have running on various FreeBSD servers. Also, I very much like the FreeBSD approach (like to pf) of don't break things that previously worked without workarounds so that production systems are not killed. > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
