Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:00:52 -0400 From: Nathan Hawkins <utsl@quic.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Mario Goebbels <mariog@tomservo.cc>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <3D5BD034.3030701@quic.net> References: <000701c243e5$2cb95370$2000000a@tsndual933> <20020814160204.A17855@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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I'd debate "silly," but you're more or less correct. The userland is really a bit mixed. Most of /sbin and /usr/sbin is from FreeBSD (kind of necessary), while most of /usr/bin is from Debian. ---Nathan Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:51:49AM +0200, Mario Goebbels wrote: > >>I'm slightly offtopic with this, but what the heck is that: >> >>http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/index >> >>I was slightly irritated when a pal showed me that! > > > It's Debian people being silly. Someone decided they liked the FreeBSD > kernel and the Debian way of doing userland and combined the two. As > you can see from the webpage, it's not exactly popular (the site hasn't > been updated in four months.) It's more or less legal and doesn't hurt > anything. > > -- Brooks > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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