From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 10 6:34:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7FB437B400 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:34:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA02845; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:33:57 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020110073230.00e32220@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:33:48 -0700 To: Johann Visagie , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GNU GRUB folks need BSD hackers In-Reply-To: <20020110104840.GP82461@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org These people are apparently under the mistaken impression that users of BSD want to be dependent upon GPLed software. (Oh, yes! Tie me up, please!) --Brett Glass At 03:48 AM 1/10/2002, Johann Visagie wrote: >Just noticed this, FWIW: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/#bsd > > "We really need help by BSD hackers. Currently, almost nobody works for > BSD-based operating systems, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. So > we have critical problems in booting later versions of NetBSD and > OpenBSD. FreeBSD is not a big problem, because GRUB can boot it via > /boot/loader for now." > >-- V > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message