I'm no kernel or BSD specialist... actually my experiences with BSD are pretty thin.
> Now on the same note... BSD has a great packaging and porting system, > arguably as good if not better than debians. I like the idea of using > debians packaging system to try cleanly organize and merge the porting of > code effort between the two systems. My experience mit FreeBSD's ports system is by far not as good as with debian's packages; although it may be quite well to. But what i like about debian is the standards. With FreeBSD i'm looking for the config files all the time... i prefer having all config files in /etc so i do not have to "locate" them or look in /usr/local/etc as well etc. Furthermore i work sometimes on a FreeBSD machine in university; i think the admin's do their job well and know a lot about FreeBSD, but some apps just do not work for unknown reasons. This starts with Gnome unable to set a jpeg as background, png work. Something i experienced not even in debian unstable... At least not for more than 1 day... > I guess I must say that my main interest is having a distribution that would > be Linux-Like with a BSD core. (Is that silly?) It's all about > consistancy. That's what i'd like to, i'd also like a path compatibility and package-names-compatibility, so that for any non-kernel-specific questions i do not have to care wheter the user has BSD or Linux. > Should we look at even a more heavily striped down version such as the > Darwin kernel? (Though I don't know what we will do for drivers, etc.. > probably not a good idea). Preferably, i'd like to have it as kernel-independent as possible. It would be great if you could choose between freeBSD, openBSD, Darwin kernels. > Anyway, all these are points of discussion but I would like to see these > decisions made sooner rather than later as I am anxious to use apt-get with > my BSD based system with my linux like environment. (Ok, thats my idea of > how it would be.. open for comments!) :) And i'd want the packages to have the same name etc. so that i could even share the config files when i need to. Greetings, Erich
