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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:39:21 +0400
From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD
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On 10/16/05, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> On Oct 15, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Tom Norris wrote:
>
> > Sean wrote:
> >
> >> Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD
> >> operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term
> >> goal of the Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any
> >> combination of *BSD or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD
> >> or GNU userland tools.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :(
> > Oh well, I'm going try to not to be a jerk until I at least *try*
> > their product.
>
>      I do like how their compiling and feature management works, ie
> portage as opposed to ports (it's done through stability/arch masks
> and feature 'compile flags'), but it still isn't 100% kosher and
> doesn't work all the time even in native Gentoo Linux.
> -Garrett
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The original idea belongs to the Debian project. See
here:

http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

Such projects help us (in theory, at least) improve
the linux compatibility layer.