cdparanoia and Freebsd

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does it work? I've read on the FAQ and through a search of older LKF threads that it doesn't work in anything but linux. I'm wondering if anyone has tried it using the Linux binary compatibility stuff in Freebsd. and also, if cdparanoia doesn't work, what's a good alternative for a plain atapi cdrom?

and also, since i might have to install slackware if cdparanoia doesn't work (and there are no other alternatives), does slack have a package system, like debian, or maybe ports like freebsd?

Although I don't know about cd-ripping under FreeBSD (I have only used it for servers), Slackware has a packaging system, but it's completely different than either deb's or rpm's.
Slackware packages are gzipped tar files, so it doesn't really have the fancy dependency management that Debian and RedHat based distros have, but a plus-point for Slackware is that the system doesn't get messed up as much if you compile packages from source and install them via make install.
after reading some more, i'm under the impression that slackware packages are tar.gz, but that they are binary, not straight source like vanilla tgz's... ??
Yes, their binary tgz packages.
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