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Date:      Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:58:38 +1000
From:      Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
Cc:        maxx@yuc.sch.bme.hu, kline@thought.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, publisher@laptop.ompages.com, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject:   Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD)
Message-ID:  <19990711175821.A31966@rising.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199907110614.XAA01396@tao.thought.org>; from Gary Kline on Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:14:40PM -0700
References:  <19990711135202.A31449@rising.com.au> <199907110614.XAA01396@tao.thought.org>

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On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:14:40PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	Is a separate list really necessary?  Until there are at
> 	least dozens hard-core committed and there is a real 
> 	Core group form, all you'd have is yet-anoter-mailinglist.

At the moment we are sending to a FreeBSD list, a Debian list,
and a few individuals, I think this is non-optimal.

> 	As I see it--and it's been 15 years since I did any serious
> 	kernel hacking--the main effort would be adding the GNU|Linux
> 	extra-kernel code to the FreeBSD kernel.  How many hacker-
> 	years' effort this is, I don't know.
> 
> 	Is it worth the effort?  Dunno; how many folks are willing
> 	to commit to some N 90-hour weeks?

First I think we need to work out what the goal would be. I've already
suggested an alternative goal which I personally think would be much
more valuable.


Hamish
-- 
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