Re: Re: Debian BSD.. cool idea

2000-02-12 Thread Steve Shorter
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Dan Papasian wrote: > > The FHS is a load of crap. There are plently of standards existing > beforehand for the layout of the UNIX filesystem.. Linux, aiming to act > exactly like a UNIX, should follow these, not set their own standards. > Plenty of standards? Isn'

Re: Re: Debian BSD.. cool idea

2000-01-31 Thread Steve Shorter
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Steve Price wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Steve Shorter wrote: > > # I would like GNU tools, debian package system, debian userland > # with a FreeBSD kernel as an "out of the box" thing. > If you haven't already you might want to install F

Re: Re: Debian BSD.. cool idea

2000-01-31 Thread Steve Shorter
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Dan Papasian wrote: > I'll analyze these one by one. > > GNU tools: Which ones, and why replace the existing ones? > Do you know/care if you have GNU find vs BSD find? > Can you even tell the difference between GNU cp and BSD cp? Yeh. GNU cp cp some_dir someother_d

Re: Re: Debian BSD.. cool idea

2000-01-30 Thread Steve Shorter
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > Oki : > Debian FreeBSD/FreeBSD will install to /usr/local/ > Debian GNU/Linux will install to /usr/ > Debian GNU/Hurd will install to / > Debian CygWin/NT will use C:\Program Files > > Is this acceptable solution ? > (nothing is using /opt/ yet

Re: Re: Debian BSD.. cool idea

2000-01-30 Thread Steve Shorter
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Dan Papasian wrote: > > As a contributor to FreeBSD, I need specific things that you'd like > us to fix. FreeBSD has a good stability record too.. > The message I'm getting (Which I'm damn near positive you don't want > to send) is "Well FreeBSD is great but it isn't debi

Re: ping

1999-12-20 Thread Steve Shorter
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > is the list not working or is there no traffic? > Good Question. What is the approach being taken? Porting glibc seems to be the best solution. Is someone working on this? Or some other approach or is there no longer an