On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 12:46:37PM +0100, Per Lundberg wrote:
> Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Of course that raises US issues so it's not going to happen, but it'd be
> > cool all the same.
>
> Well.. the libc could be in non-US.
With libc in non-US every program using libc wil
Thank you very much for discusion :)
I've upload some information about my project. Please look at
http://master.debian.org/~dexter/debian-freebsd/doc/
There I've explained why this project called "Debian GNU/Linux"
and what packages I've replaced.
I'll try to create tar archive with base syste
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 10:02:07AM +0100, Per Lundberg wrote:
> Well, it doesn't work perfectly. Some system calls are missing. I did a
> little test; I mounted my Linux root under /usr/compat/linux, and tried to
> run bash, and it failed. dpkg seemed to start, though, so it's probably
> quite comp
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 02:41:31AM -0500, Adam wrote:
> I beg to differ.. FreeBSD comes with sendmail configured to run just fine
OK, my mistake. Generally, it seemed that not much configuration was
done of the installed software, whereas Debian errs on the other side
(too many questions).
> by d
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> On Thursday 18 November 1999, at 16 h 59, the keyboard of Piotr Roszatycki
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We discussed two approaches on this list:
> - just using the FreeBSD kernel (and a few userland kernel-specific
> utilities), everything else would be normal Deb
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Personally if we're going to do a BSD and use their libc, I think we
> should be looking at OpenBSD rather than FreeBSD... , strong
> crypto in libc...
Nothing stops us from doing both, you know. Personally, I just happen
to prefer the FreeBSD kern
On Friday 19 November 1999, at 2 h 41, the keyboard of Adam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> it was easier to remove rather than simply disable (This is something that
> needs work, removing unneeded parts of the base os)
It is funny to notice that most of the discussions about that on the FreeBSD
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 10:37:29AM +0100, Per Lundberg wrote:
> > We have permission to use the name "Linux", we don't have permission
> > to use the name "FreeBSD" and aren't likely to get it since what
> > we're doing isn't FreeBSD, it's DebianBSD or something.
>
> But DebianBSD is misleading, s
On Thursday 18 November 1999, at 16 h 59, the keyboard of Piotr Roszatycki
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How is it different? You're thinking of the passwd.master (or what it's
> > called), or something else?
>
> FreeBSD-3.3 have master.passwd with additional fields befor GECOS field.
We discu
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We have permission to use the name "Linux", we don't have permission
> to use the name "FreeBSD" and aren't likely to get it since what
> we're doing isn't FreeBSD, it's DebianBSD or something.
But DebianBSD is misleading, since it doesn't tell which BS
On Thursday 18 November 1999, at 22 h 6, the keyboard of John Goerzen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is no mere political thing as you try to make it. What you and
> others are trying to do is, in my opinion, seriously damaging to the
> Free Software community.
...
> WE MUST NOT ALLOW people
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Well, Debian diskspace is already blowing out (for the archive, not
> for installed systems). If the emulation works just as well, we can
> save a lot of time by not recompiling.
Well, it doesn't work perfectly. Some system calls are missing. I did a
l
I beg to differ.. FreeBSD comes with sendmail configured to run just fine
by default. Thats the main reason I and many others (probably) continue
using it, just because its there and it works. Yes, it would be nice if
it was easier to remove rather than simply disable (This is something that
need
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:03:37PM +0400, Alexander N. Kogan wrote:
> I think, the better idea is to use FreeBSD port system in Debian ;-))
No thanks. Not as good IMHO.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 06:56:53PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote:
> On 99-10-26 Clint Adams wrote:
> > > We are mostly trying to create a better package system for FreeBSD in
> > > combination with the other good aspects of Debian. If I seem to recall
> > > the discussion at the beginn correctly.
>
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:24:47PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > Why bother porting non-base packages, since FreeBSD has linux
> > emulation mode?
>
> What? Why emulate when you can compile natively?
[I'm about 3 weeks late, but anyway...]
Well, Debian diskspace is already blowing out (for the
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