Quoting Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Whoever builds the first prototype gets to choose the direction for > the project. If nobody wants this badly enough to actually do it, it > will probably never happen.
OTOH, if two people do it two different ways, we'll have a problem. (Although that's a problem we'd be better off with than the current situation... :) I do hereby predict that we'll have at least one working prototype by the end of August. Feel free to throw this quote back in my face if we don't. But I at least didn't come here just to talk. *Something* is going to be done soon, I guarentee it... > In case you're wondering, I'm subscribed to this list because I would > be interested in the result, not because I'm motivated to spearhead > the project. This list seems to be mostly populated by people with a > similar view. I'm sure anyone interested is welcome. Even if you don't want to hack code, you're a potential tester. Personally, I'm here to hack code if that's what it takes (and it will, no doubt). > Is there anything particularly spectacular that one would be able to > accomplish with a Debian/BSD hybrid, something to make the sweat > worthwhile for at least a few people here? Does it scratch an itch? > So far, it doesn't seem to be much more than an "It would be nice > if..." with some dpkg/apt diffs as a starting point. I will consider the sweat worthwhile if I can someday install Debian on my boxes that don't support Linux. I don't mind running NetBSD on them, but I'd prefer Debian. Enough that I'm willing to work for it. Note, this implies I will not be satisfied by a Debian/BSD-i386. That in and of itself would be a worthy goal, and help make sure that Debian truly becomes a kernel-independent OS. But I'm specifically looking to be able to install Debian/BSD-sparc and Debian/BSD-m68k on some distant(?) day... [Although there are Linux versions for both architectures, they don't work on my machines -- NetBSD does.] In the mean time Debian/BSD-i386 is probably the easiest starting point. Once that works the rest should be easy (relatively speaking)... -- GT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dreamsmith.org "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one else can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust
