From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 2 22:27:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94834106566B for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:27:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045118FC0C for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0BCEB66B3; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:27:17 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FEC160D43; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:27:16 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id A3sjLdR-Z1Uc; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:27:16 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp-94-64-192-240.home.otenet.gr [94.64.192.240]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40B1160D42; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:27:16 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o12MRG1b018400 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:27:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o12MRCP8018370; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:27:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Kevin Kinsey References: <4B5BB3F3.1070205@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4B5FA07A.2020906@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4B600F50.1060204@gmail.com> <20100127104652.GJ12145@comcast.net> <86aavzkaka.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20100127204710.GM12145@comcast.net> <4B64E70C.2010408@daleco.biz> <4B65423A.6010700@fairhaven.za.net> <4B664798.6020008@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:27:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4B664798.6020008@daleco.biz> (Kevin Kinsey's message of "Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:16:40 -0600") Message-ID: <87zl3rgtof.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Angus Robinson , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I Love FreeBSD! X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:27:18 -0000 On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:16:40 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: >> It was NetBSD >> http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php > > Yes, that was one. And at least one Linuxen did the same thing. I > guess if we want someone can say who was first, but it's no big deal > to me. It may well have been NetBSD first, they're uber-geeks similar > to the FBSD folk, and are well known for hw compatibility, but you > know that, I'm sure. Yes, the NetBSD folks have a very portable source tree and are known for the high-quality of their source. It probably doesn't really matter who ran on a toaster first, since I'd take NetBSD sources over Linux sources without so much as a blink of a second thought *any* day :-)