begin quoting Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. as of Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:37:36PM -0800: > > On Mar 3, 2005, at 2:48 AM, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > >-"Still looking for that free alternative to GNU tools" > > It's called BSD.
Pardon me while I have a "duh!" moment. <fx type="headslap"/> I knew this. Really, I did. Darn neurons. > While the *BSD folks use gcc, a lot of the operating system utilities > are BSD licensed and BSD heritage, not GPL. Sometimes, this is > infuriating as the fscking flags are different (See: tar -xvjf). Traditionally, this is where ps causes heartburn, no? > If you were really serious, it probably isn't that much work to replace > everything GPL in a *BSD. The only one which would be a problem would > be gcc. Yeah, that is a bit of a problem, innit? -Stewart "Okay, now I need to set up Yet Another Machine..." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
