Re: OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD???
In article <002501c243e7$9c1ae5b0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/index >> > >> > I was slightly irritated when a pal showed me that! >> >> Why? > > I thought FreeBSD wants no distros to avoid all the distrochaos Linux got > right now. Debian is rather contraproductive to that. Luckily it aint > popular. > > -mg I can't understand the resoning for even doing this. For the Linux userland (i.e., GNU utilities)? I _much_ prefer the FreeBSD userland... Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD???
I'd debate "silly," but you're more or less correct. The userland is really a bit mixed. Most of /sbin and /usr/sbin is from FreeBSD (kind of necessary), while most of /usr/bin is from Debian. ---Nathan Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:51:49AM +0200, Mario Goebbels wrote: > >>I'm slightly offtopic with this, but what the heck is that: >> >>http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/index >> >>I was slightly irritated when a pal showed me that! > > > It's Debian people being silly. Someone decided they liked the FreeBSD > kernel and the Debian way of doing userland and combined the two. As > you can see from the webpage, it's not exactly popular (the site hasn't > been updated in four months.) It's more or less legal and doesn't hurt > anything. > > -- Brooks > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD???
Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:51:49AM +0200, Mario Goebbels wrote: >> I'm slightly offtopic with this, but what the heck is that: >> http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/index >> I was slightly irritated when a pal showed me that! > >It's Debian people being silly. Someone decided they liked the FreeBSD >kernel and the Debian way of doing userland and combined the two. As >you can see from the webpage, it's not exactly popular (the site hasn't >been updated in four months.) There are a couple of Debian/BSD efforts going on at the moment, one based on FreeBSD and the other on NetBSD. There's only a couple of people working on each of them, and the principal FreeBSD guy is currently lacking development resources so not much progress is being made there. Both groups are having trouble reconciling the different functionality of glibc and BSD libc. They're planning to make both a part of the next major release of Debian, so it will be ported to N+3 kernels (Linux, Hurd, NetBSD, FreeBSD). Given the effectiveness of their release engineering, don't expect it to get anywhere near general usability for at least a year, and probably getting on for two. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES DOVER: SOUTH OR SOUTHEAST 3 OR 4, OCCASIONALLY 5 IN HUMBER, BECOMING VARIABLE 3 LATER. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD WITH FOG PATCHES. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD???
> > http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/index > > > > I was slightly irritated when a pal showed me that! > > Why? I thought FreeBSD wants no distros to avoid all the distrochaos Linux got right now. Debian is rather contraproductive to that. Luckily it aint popular. -mg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD???
Mario Goebbels wrote: > I'm slightly offtopic with this, but what the heck is that: Ontopic for -chat, and maybe -advocacy; perhaps you should pst there, instead... > http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/index > > I was slightly irritated when a pal showed me that! Why? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD???
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:51:49AM +0200, Mario Goebbels wrote: > I'm slightly offtopic with this, but what the heck is that: > > http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/index > > I was slightly irritated when a pal showed me that! It's Debian people being silly. Someone decided they liked the FreeBSD kernel and the Debian way of doing userland and combined the two. As you can see from the webpage, it's not exactly popular (the site hasn't been updated in four months.) It's more or less legal and doesn't hurt anything. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 msg41903/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD???
I'm slightly offtopic with this, but what the heck is that: http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/index I was slightly irritated when a pal showed me that! -mg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
