> "Joel" == Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joel> No, it's debian-legal's to decide. To date, they have
Joel> considered some form of renaming to be the only feasible
Joel> option.
>>
>> I mean, of course, the lack of choices in your proposed balot.
Joel> Then y
> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Erik> the question is whether you have a right in the first place.
>>
>> Yeah, I think it is part of the right of free speech, which is
>> commonly accepted right in contemporary democratic countries and I
>> really hope i
> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Erik>so you are one of the few that like the Jehova witnesses?
I'm not familiar with this group(?).
Erik>the question is whether you have a right in the first place.
Yeah, I think it is part of the right of free speech,
>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joel> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:02:20PM +0200, Momchil Velikov wrote:
>> >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
Joel> We hav
> "Joel" == Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joel> We have been asked, by the folks who own the name, that we do
Joel> *something* to avoid using it in this context. Therefore, 'not
Joel> changing' (from the old usage) is not a viable option. It would
Joel> be extremely rude, and it coul
>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Erik> Momchil Velikov wrote:
>>>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Erik> I know that ms doesn't distribute gnu utils
>> FWIW, they d
> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Erik> I know that ms doesn't distribute gnu utils
FWIW, they do. GCC and GDB at least.
Erik>just to clarify: at the same time, if debian is called debian
Erik>gnu/linux system because debian developers decided that it should
Erik>
> "Joel" == Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joel> The proposed naming schemes of which I am aware are as follows:
Joel> 1) Christian demonology
Joel> 2) Discworld gods
Joel> 3) Tolkien Valar/Maiar
Joel> 4) Greek mythology
Joel> 5) Famous physicists
and 6) NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD poss
> "Joel" == Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joel> RMS / FSF / GNU ask for the GNU prefix (where they consider it
Joel> appropriate)
Right.
Joel> *NetBSD* is asking for it to be 'KNetBSD' rather than just 'NetBSD',
Joel> because the latter, in their view (and theirs is the view one s
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> That would be a funny naming scheme. That said, how would we then
Sven> differentiate the three BSD ports ? GNU/First one that shall not be
Sven> named and so one ?
Indeed !
GNU/First one that shall not be named
GNU/Next one that shal
> "Mathieu" == Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mathieu> If we follow your theory, it means that if someday another
Mathieu> system use the glibc, we should remove the GNU from the
Mathieu> GNU/Linux name.
FWIW, BeOS uses glibc.
~velco
> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Branden> Remember, outside the Free Software community, copyright is
Branden> used only as a destructive weapon, not a tool for promoting
Branden> cooperation and harmony.
It looks like not only outside Free Software community, con
>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joel> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:33:30AM +0200, Momchil Velikov wrote:
>> How can the use of ``NetBSD'' "dilute" the trademark, when it refers
>> to a piece of the same softwa
How can the use of ``NetBSD'' "dilute" the trademark, when it refers
to a piece of the same software ?
~velco
>>>>> "Jimmy" == Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jimmy> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:40:05PM +0200, Momchil Velikov wrote:
>> >>>>> "Jimmy" == Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
Jimmy> I can
> "Jimmy" == Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jimmy> I can't find the exact messages for some of these examples of their
Jimmy> experience, but one post mentioned that the poster had implemented
Jimmy> applications using hundreds or thousands of threads;
How can this be consider
> "Perry" == Perry E Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Perry> Why do you want NetBSD's kernel? You obviously believe everything that
Perry> NetBSD has done is fecal, so what would the point of contaminating the
Perry> "superior" GNU userland with a crappy NetBSD kernel?
Done with the strawma
> "Perry" == Perry E Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Perry> In general, I can see why one would want to combine the advantages of
Perry> Debian and NetBSD, but I can't see why one would want to produce
Perry> something less functional than either.
"Less functional" is apparently not the
> "Michael" == Michael Ritzert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> Why is it important for debian BSD to sum up the
Michael> differences in BSD libc and glibc?
Maybe to justify choosing one or another ?
Michael> - the dominance of glibc-based linux has forced IBM and
Michael
> "Atifa" == Atifa Kheel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Atifa> e)Other Streams(like string streams,Obstack streams,etc)
Atifa> glibc: Supported
Atifa> BSD libc: Not Supported.
wide oriented streams (wprintf, etc.) ?
Atifa> 14.
Atifa> Math Library
Atifa> Support for Mathe
Details on http://www.geocities.com/velcok/netbsd-gnu.html
In two words - it works.
The following packages were built and appear to work in a chroot(2)
environment. The packages marked with a star (*) were built
natively. The GCC was bootstrapped for C and C++.
autoconf-2.56.tar.gz
automake-1.4-
FYI, WIP: http://www.geocities.com/velcok/netbsd-gnu.html
Have fun,
~velco
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