From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Nov 24 11:22:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from main.apex.dp.ua (main.apex.dp.ua [195.24.128.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DAC14F99 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:22:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from voland@dialup456.apex.dp.ua) Received: from dialup456.apex.dp.ua (dialup456.apex.dp.ua [195.24.155.156]) by main.apex.dp.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA38905 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:24:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from voland@dialup456.apex.dp.ua) Received: (from voland@localhost) by dialup456.apex.dp.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA48700; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:21:22 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from voland) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BSD based Debian... From: Vadim Belman Date: 24 Nov 1999 21:21:21 +0200 Message-ID: <85ln7nn1am.fsf@lflat.dp.ua> Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For those who don't read Slashdot this quote from the official Debian Web site. No comments... I especially wonder *how* are they gonna to cooperate with FreeBSD community? Or will they develop their own kernel branch? I mean it doesn't seem possible to have normal relations when one say such things... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian with the FreeBSD kernel was the subject of a heated week-long discussion. It seems that since this idea was first conceived in February, a few people have been working on the port. The status of their work can be read about here. Basically, they are using the FreeBSD kernel and libc, and recompiling Debian packages to work on that system. Reactions varied. John Goerzen worries that a version of Debian based on a BSD copyrighted kernel would open the door to third parties taking our work and making it proprietary, and also that "we are essentially giving first aid to software that is dying (and rightfully so) because of its license". Many others disagree with him and have no problems with the BSD license. Others wonder if it wouldn't be technically better, and easier in the long run, to port glibc to FreeBSD, and allow Debian packages to be used unchanged with that kernel and library combination. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- /Voland Vadim Belman E-mail: voland@plab.ku.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message