From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 20:37: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283C937BBF5 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 20:37:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@glue.umd.edu) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (root@z.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.71]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA21769; Tue, 23 May 2000 23:36:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA04717; Tue, 23 May 2000 23:36:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA04713; Tue, 23 May 2000 23:36:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: z.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:36:54 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Mohit Aron Cc: Glenn Johnson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel In-Reply-To: <200005240322.WAA09260@noel.cs.rice.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mohit Aron wrote: > Well, I'm not about to give up FreeBSD running on my desktop, but at times > it is frustrating to not being able to use so much stuff out there that's > meant to work for Linux but doesn't work for FreeBSD for one small reason > or another. I think the user base can only grow if it is as easy to > use third-party applications on FreeBSD as on Linux. It would be good if you pointed out these problems through PRs or at least a message to the appropriate list so that they could be fixed. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message