Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:44:03 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20051015204402.GB60135@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <7988846E-6A27-4F8F-BED6-B83A05A21477@u.washington.edu> References: <435154E0.7050106@comcast.net> <435156E9.8000601@trancegeek.net> <7988846E-6A27-4F8F-BED6-B83A05A21477@u.washington.edu>
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On 2005-10-15 13:12, 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. I can only wish them "good luck", in all honesty :)
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