From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 28 9:53:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from death.arcdiv.com (death.arcdiv.com [64.94.4.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EA637B403 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@ticktockman.com) Received: from ticktockman.com (c207-202-216-52.sea1.cablespeed.com [207.202.216.52]) by death.arcdiv.com (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f7SGrZo112464; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:53:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B8BCCAF.B86CDA5@ticktockman.com> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:54:07 -0700 From: kevin godfrey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd newbies Subject: Re: Distribution Question (Was: Would like comments...) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Because nobody has determined it to be important enough to make it > > > native. You can use all the Linux programs you need under > > > "emulation," BTW... so why fix something that isn't directly related to > > > FreeBSD being a SERVER OS? > > > > Well, how about because there are many java application servers out > > there that would probably benefit from running on a BSD platform... > > The same reason above, coupled with the fact that the Core Team > and commiters are limited to what they can do. FreeBSD does not have the > large team of people throwing code at it that Linux does. The FreeBSD > developers work on what interests them, none are currently interested in > doing so. Ok, thanks for the snotty answer. It helps all newbies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message