From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 23:02:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E247D106566B for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 23:02:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BAA8FC14 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 23:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkvi18 with SMTP id i18so1427545bkv.13 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 16:02:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DF5Pv4vzMqYoyWkvEEx3ssyrgPrwo69TZW5BQgudHqY=; b=okGYsoJQbxF1trBZ//gmp2yKkxlYV0wG1wnAc2t/YFLD0B9Nbr6cRwp/GSboMiggGr vFpz/I+lBYww2SnR7STKz7/uLxfdwBHPH8HP2kvAAnQlLUlZWIJ3in4olyITRhPXg/eJ y4TJyDJ66JKeKS0qnip7Tf3J4uXRdUwHH+aq31tm6DVmO47NE1haRCIzhpLvmq0YE11T 3wsls3vOhwbE/YY1u9uLZ9GigWRGPlu0mGKqZybCwe05TMws2n87LyUeIQqit6BYJTlJ VZmFrQopAZ1nCiPsVArDCIXIHb+JmsCCSPpRpetWZIZw/OAIaGG4rkwH52Dlqxcqi+f1 K8Rw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.151.199 with SMTP id d7mr1830047bkw.73.1337209335117; Wed, 16 May 2012 16:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.157.11 with HTTP; Wed, 16 May 2012 16:02:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 19:02:15 -0400 Message-ID: From: Outback Dingo To: Thomas Mueller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 23:02:17 -0000 On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Thomas Mueller w= rote: > Umm, it's about as factual as The Onion, except not as funny. =A0FreeBSD > never had to "jettison two thirds of its code base and start from > scratch". =A0Apple is not involved in FreeBSD development. =A0No Mac OS X= or > Darwin version "includes" FreeBSD. =A0FreeBSD and Mac OS X will never > merge. =A0FreeBSD was never acquired by WinDriver Systems or by anyone > else, although a company named WindRiver Systems (makers of the embedded > operating system VxWorks, not of Windows video drivers) did at one point > acquire BSDI, which had previously acquired Walnut Creek CD-ROM, which > was heavily involved in the early history of both FreeBSD and Slackware > Linux. =A0The remains of Walnut Creek CD-ROM and BSDI are now known as > FreeBSD Mall and iXsystems (of PC-BSD and FreeNAS fame). > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no > > I was a long-time subscriber to Slackware going back to Walnut Creek CDRO= M days (Slackware 96 to the best of my memory, but < 3.0). > > I believe FreeBSD Mall and Slackware (store.slackware.com) are connected.= =A0I had a difficult time terminating my Slackware subscription, customer = service ignoring me, thought I was going to have to have my credit card num= ber changed to jilt Slackware. =A0I noticed the similarity in subscription = arrangement between FreeBSD Mall and store.slackware.com. > > Slackware package system is geared to binary packages rather than buildin= g from source, and there is no tracking of dependencies. =A0A package can b= e installed even if dependencies are missing, and that even happened in Sla= ckware releases, as I found when I tried unsuccessfully to run gnumeric man= y releases ago, got the message of missing library. =A0Seeing the better pa= ckage managers in FreeBSD (ports), NetBSD (pkgsrc, and ported to other (qua= si-)Unix OSes), and several Linux distributions is what made me not want to= go further with Slackware. =A0Multimedia files failing to play may have be= en due to lack of proper package management. > > Tom Guess his next claim will be that the kernel was forked from minix, and userland came from QNX........... some people are just plain.... (biting my tongue) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "