Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:06:13 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports system quality Message-ID: <201109021206.p82C6DLr003739@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:57:31 BST." <CADLo83_UoAK%2BUQD62x=yniKowwdvxY9vP8rjStPg2jodticd6g@mail.gmail.com>
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> > No /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/ports-mgmt/pkgin . > > I'm not familiar with pkgin, but nice to see OS co-operation. > > So, what do you actually mean by this? Re-read: ] Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux, .... ] ... reinventing similar old ports shims for same old 3rd party wheels I found a URL to a rare sample of co-operation. There's a German phrase about "Tellerrand" ... Its wise to occasionaly look beyond ones own soup bowl :-) BSDs should co-operate more, or lose. Linux is the small brother that's already outgrown us, & offers more users & jobs. NetBSD & FreeBSD don't even speak the same language on ports. 17th Sept in ~600 cities globaly, will be http://www.softwarefreedomday.org Mostly Linux people last year here, with an occasional BSD person. ( BTW A Lot of Ubuntu CDROMs have been distributed world wide to cities ready for free give away; a few of us tried to arrange a BSD catch up, but time & lack of a rich BSD sponsor for global mailing limited that. Please consider joining SFD as a BSD exhibitor in your city that day. ) BSD loses to Linux when visitors first ask "Does it have packages for ... ? How to build/ install those ?" & Linux people tune out at different answers for *BSDs. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org 17th Sept, http://berklix.org/sfd/ Oct.
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