From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 15 9:23:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35CDD37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trantor.utsl.org (cvg-65-27-234-246.cinci.rr.com [65.27.234.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5271443E70 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from utsl@quic.net) Received: from hotrod.utsl.org ([10.10.57.3] helo=quic.net) by trantor.utsl.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17fN3x-0004ED-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:01:29 -0400 Message-ID: <3D5BD034.3030701@quic.net> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:00:52 -0400 From: Nathan Hawkins User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020615 Debian/1.0.0-3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: Mario Goebbels , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD??? References: <000701c243e5$2cb95370$2000000a@tsndual933> <20020814160204.A17855@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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