From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 11 1: 0: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from yodeller.rising.com.au (yodeller.rising.com.au [203.63.216.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7809914BD4 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 00:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamish@rising.com.au) Received: from hamish by yodeller.rising.com.au with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 113EVS-0008Jk-00; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:58:38 +1000 Message-ID: <19990711175821.A31966@rising.com.au> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:58:38 +1000 From: Hamish Moffatt To: Gary Kline 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) Mail-Followup-To: Gary Kline , maxx@yuc.sch.bme.hu, kline@thought.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, publisher@laptop.ompages.com, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, recipient@debian.org, list@debian.org, not@debian.org, shown: <@debian.org>;; References: <19990711135202.A31449@rising.com.au> <199907110614.XAA01396@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199907110614.XAA01396@tao.thought.org>; from Gary Kline on Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:14:40PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message