Re: What makes it FreeBSD...
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:34:11AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > > >It's reasonable to want to control what get's called FreeBSD. > > > > Certainly. But I think it has to go beyond the installer. We > should define an environment that third party applications can > depend on being available in any installation that claims to > be FreeBSD. Without this, you have the same environement that > Linux does where third party apps are only qualified on distribution > U and X and have no hope of working on distributions Y and Z. Agreed. If it doesn't include the bits in the CVS source repo, modulo standard knobs available for cutting bits out or frobbing things around, then it's not FreeBSD but something else based on FreeBSD. Kris PGP signature
RE: What makes it FreeBSD...
Dear All, > > > >It's reasonable to want to control what get's called FreeBSD. > > > > Certainly. But I think it has to go beyond the installer. We > should define an environment that third party applications can > depend on being available in any installation that claims to > be FreeBSD. Without this, you have the same environement that > Linux does where third party apps are only qualified on distribution > U and X and have no hope of working on distributions Y and Z. > To me, what makes it FreeBSD is the fact that it came straight off cvsup.*.freebsd.org. We are fortunate to have a centralised distribution schema, so we can actually distinguish what is freebsd and what is (technically) not (darwin, trustedbsd). Kees Jan = You can't have everything. Where would you put it? [Steven Wright] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
What makes it FreeBSD...
> >It's reasonable to want to control what get's called FreeBSD. > Certainly. But I think it has to go beyond the installer. We should define an environment that third party applications can depend on being available in any installation that claims to be FreeBSD. Without this, you have the same environement that Linux does where third party apps are only qualified on distribution U and X and have no hope of working on distributions Y and Z. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
