Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 19:39:59 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903021931370.14482-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903022006060.21648-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: > > What the hell do you need a response for?! To make sure you're not duplicating or otherwise clobbering someone else's work. An absent response is not a good thing, warm fuzzies are always nice if someone is expected/going to go out of their way to maintain something. Just ask the Qt port maintainer ;) > And there you go - you're a port maintainer. If this is that difficult to > comprehend you shouldn't be maintaining ports anyway. Better yet, go > through the tree and find ports that don't have a maintainer and make > yourself its caretaker. There are plenty that don't have one (they'll > have MAINTAINER= ports@freebsd.org). Ah, and I was beginning to wonder why I see so many "FreeBSD and MacOS users are more elitest than any other group of people" rants on /. . > We DID eliminate the need to do both. FreeBSD is now ELF - deal w/ it. > If you don't think 3.1 is stable then deal w/ the fact that new ports are > not going to be available to you. Yes, but you've still got 2.2.x out there. Keep in mind 2.2.8 is newer than 3.0, and there's likely quite a few people who are still using 2.2.x. Perhaps by 3.2 not supporting 2.2-STABLE will be completely worth while. > > Again, you're not being creatve or innovative here. Again, why not > > just adapt the Linux emulator to bring in FreeBSD ELFs? And then you roll the 3.0 kernel with all its new syscalls and soforth into a 2.2.x kernel. Not a good idea. > Finally, it'd be nice if you showed some maturity and stopped whining > about the GPL constantly. > I'm done w/ this as I might as well be talking to a fence post. That can be arranged, and it comes with a complimentary straight jacket. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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