On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Thomas Mueller <muelle...@insightbb.com> wrote: > Umm, it's about as factual as The Onion, except not as funny. FreeBSD > never had to "jettison two thirds of its code base and start from > scratch". Apple is not involved in FreeBSD development. No Mac OS X or > Darwin version "includes" FreeBSD. FreeBSD and Mac OS X will never > merge. FreeBSD was never acquired by WinDriver Systems or by anyone > else, although a company named WindRiver Systems (makers of the embedded > operating system VxWorks, not of Windows video drivers) did at one point > acquire BSDI, which had previously acquired Walnut Creek CD-ROM, which > was heavily involved in the early history of both FreeBSD and Slackware > Linux. The remains of Walnut Creek CD-ROM and BSDI are now known as > FreeBSD Mall and iXsystems (of PC-BSD and FreeNAS fame). > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no > > I was a long-time subscriber to Slackware going back to Walnut Creek CDROM > days (Slackware 96 to the best of my memory, but < 3.0). > > I believe FreeBSD Mall and Slackware (store.slackware.com) are connected. I > had a difficult time terminating my Slackware subscription, customer service > ignoring me, thought I was going to have to have my credit card number > changed to jilt Slackware. I noticed the similarity in subscription > arrangement between FreeBSD Mall and store.slackware.com. > > Slackware package system is geared to binary packages rather than building > from source, and there is no tracking of dependencies. A package can be > installed even if dependencies are missing, and that even happened in > Slackware releases, as I found when I tried unsuccessfully to run gnumeric > many releases ago, got the message of missing library. Seeing the better > package managers in FreeBSD (ports), NetBSD (pkgsrc, and ported to other > (quasi-)Unix OSes), and several Linux distributions is what made me not want > to go further with Slackware. Multimedia files failing to play may have been > due to lack of proper package management. > > Tom
Guess his next claim will be that the kernel was forked from minix, and userland came from QNX........... some people are just plain.... (biting my tongue) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
