Somebody's suggesting we ought to be at least 's the preferred variant from FPC/Lazarus's POV: OpenBSD, FreeBSD etc.?

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote

Somebody's suggesting we ought to be at least 's the preferred variant from FPC/Lazarus's POV: OpenBSD, FreeBSD etc.?

I think Marco mainly uses FreeBSD.

Michael.

Thanks Michael. Minimal research also suggests that it's got the best congruence with e.g. Apple's Darwin.

In our previous episode, said:

> Somebody's suggesting we ought to be at least 's the > preferred variant from FPC/Lazarus's POV: OpenBSD, FreeBSD etc.? I think Marco mainly uses FreeBSD.

Pierre does OpenBSD and NetBSD, and the level should be decent, but still they are only on the first beta level.

OTOH, I don't get that much FreeBSD specific feedback either. Sometimes nothing a whole release cycle. At least as far as dynamic linking goes (making shared libraries in FPC), FreeBSD is less far than Linux.

Another reason to choose FreeBSD over net/oipen is that recent versions are much faster in Virtual Box.

OK, I'll try to get a copy going here and to run FPC up on it on occasion. I find Qemu isn't too bad with an x86 guest, I just wish that more OSes had been ported to UML (User Mode Linux) which provides an API rather than attempting to emulate a PC's hardware.

I might while I'm at it try a ReactOS guest and possibly Sanos: looks like the author of the latter has been tidying things up a bit so it's worth watching even if an FPC port is improbable.

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote

Somebody's suggesting we ought to be at least 's the preferred variant from FPC/Lazarus's POV: OpenBSD, FreeBSD etc.?

I'm using FreeBSD 9.0 for some CGI apps of mine, and it works without hassle.

Regards,
- Graeme -

Thanks Graeme. "Somebody" is, of course, a senior colleague- I'm not in this totally out of masochism :-)