From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 17:18:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1804114DB2 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:18:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA06361; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:17:52 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990302181055.00ad67a0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:14:14 -0700 To: Brett Taylor From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Cc: Bill Fumerola , Adam Turoff , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990302163944.00a1e620@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:21 PM 3/2/99 -0700, Brett Taylor wrote: >Hint 1 - no one ASKS people to maintain ports. Like all of FreeBSD you >volunteer to help. I've volunteered on several occasions and did not meet with a warm response. >You could certainly volunteer some of your time to try >to make an a.out ports tree that stays in lockstep w/ the STABLE tree. Again, you're not being creatve or innovative here. Again, why not just adapt the Linux emulator to bring in FreeBSD ELFs? >It's not that it's hard to get it to do ELF _or_ a.out but to be able to >do BOTH in one system. Until you actually start trying to maintain some >ports and do some work in this area, or let Satoshi explain to you in >simple terms WHY it's hard then it's clear we're not going anywhere. Then eliminate the need for that. Again, you're not "thinking outside the box." I think it requires a certain level of maturity to think in terms of the users who want a stable, tested version rather than the bleeding edge and accommodate them. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message