Re: How to check for a GNU userland

2002-01-27 Thread Nero
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:27, you wrote: > I have a chroot at ftp://trantor.utsl.org/pub, if you want to try it out. > The tar is out of date, because I've been concentrating on getting to the > point where I can let people make their own chroot's with debootstrap. > Almost there. > > I've been workin

Re: How to check for a GNU userland

2002-01-27 Thread Nero
I would help out if I could, but all I could do is help test, since I can not code.. (I run the -stable branch of FreeBSD) On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 07:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know exactly how you feel. I seem to be working on the FreeBSD port > alone, also. Fortunately, some work can be shared

Re: "Why Debian NetBSD"

2002-01-19 Thread Nero
Jeroen Dekkers wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:52:58AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: Apart from that a lot ofthings come from GNU and they they deserve credit, there is also another reason. It's spreading the words of freedom. The GNU website talks about

Status

2001-10-05 Thread Nero
I'd just like to know if people are still working on this, or is it actually dead? If so, can they post an occasional update to the list?

Re: libc strategy

2001-07-02 Thread Nero
On Mon, 02 Jul 2001 17:31:18 -0700 Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it seems to me that these are two different things since bsd isn't a > hardware type; it's a kernel and operating system. so it seems to me > that 'debian-bsd' should be something different from 'debian-sparc' or > 'debi

Re: vote

2001-06-28 Thread Nero
Trying to support ext2 at this point would be a big waste of time/effort, UFS works, use it. If people still want ext2, it should be worked on later. Very later, like when the whole system is up and running. Having ext2 support is, IMHO, a nicety feature - ie. it's not needed, but it would be nice.

Re: Re: vote

2001-06-27 Thread Nero
> > BSD tools have been upgraded and kept modern as well- and > > considering, especially in NetBSD, their proven robustness > > and portability, it seems almost backwards to be replacing > > the BSD toolset with the GNU toolset. If this is true, and those tools provide pretty-much the same functi

Re: vote

2001-06-26 Thread Nero
1) either B or C - NetBSD for the portability factor, FreeBSD for speed. 2) C. This would make it pretty much Debian, with a BSD kernel. Begin Original Message From: Andreas Krennmair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:49:46 +0200 To: Debian-BSD Mailinglist Subject: vote