From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 15 20:45:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BE916A41F for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:45:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from nic.ach.sch.gr (nic.sch.gr [194.63.238.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC1743D48 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:45:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 12073 invoked by uid 207); 15 Oct 2005 20:45:36 -0000 Received: from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr by nic by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (sophie: 3.04/2.30/3.97. Clear:RC:1(81.186.70.170):. Processed in 3.929047 secs); 15 Oct 2005 20:45:36 -0000 Received: from dialup170.ach.sch.gr (HELO flame.pc) ([81.186.70.170]) (envelope-sender ) by nic.sch.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 15 Oct 2005 20:45:32 -0000 Received: from flame.pc (flame [127.0.0.1]) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9FKi4Lr060217; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:44:04 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j9FKi3OQ060216; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:44:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:44:03 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20051015204402.GB60135@flame.pc> References: <435154E0.7050106@comcast.net> <435156E9.8000601@trancegeek.net> <7988846E-6A27-4F8F-BED6-B83A05A21477@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7988846E-6A27-4F8F-BED6-B83A05A21477@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:45:39 -0000 On 2005-10-15 13:12, Garrett Cooper 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 :)