Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:23:52 +0100:
> On Friday 06 January 2006 09:37, Duncan wrote: >> Well, for that matter, "distribution" is considered at least by my *BSD >> friends, to be a peculiarly Linux term. From their perspective, Linux has >> 1001 "distributions", but they only have the one *BSD they choose to use. > That's what we started changing. Gentoo/FreeBSD is by all means a FreeBSD > distribution (actually, PC-BSD started this a bit before of us). > We didn't fork it to change the base system, we use FreeBSD basesystem and > portage, so it's not like others BSD. And I definitely wish you well in your G/FBSD efforts, but when I mentioned them on my local ISP's unix (*ix) group, the FBSD groupies reaction was "Yuck!" Tell me, from someone who obviously has some FBSD experience, what advantages does Gentoo/FreeBSD have over the normal FreeBSD? Why would someone use it who is currently using regular FreeBSD, and why are you spending the time? There are obviously reasons, as you're a very talented person spending quite a bit of time on the project, but equally obviously, I'm not familiar enough with them to make a good G/FBSD representative, at this point. (If you like and don't consider this topical for the list or thread, mail me. If I have the question, however, it's possible others do as well, and just haven't asked, so maybe it is worth keeping to the list. Whatever. /I'm/ interested, anyway.) TIA -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
