From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jan 16 2: 0: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48BB137B417 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:00:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0GA01X39218; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:00:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:00:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201161000.g0GA01X39218@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: misc/33906: tic program is missing from the base FreeBSD installation Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/33906; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/33906: tic program is missing from the base FreeBSD installation Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:54:16 +0200 On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:30:02 PST, "Ted Mittelstaedt" wrote: > Anyway, FreeBSD doesen't have Linux binaries in it but by gosh > isn't that /modules/linux.ko I see in the default install? Nooo! That's a kernel module. It's in the base system instead of the ports tree because kernel modules can be very difficult to maintain outside the base system, particularly something like this which claws into the syscall table. So I don't think that was a good example. > Don't forget that Sun just mightily pissed off all > it's Solaris 8 users when they announced last week that Solaris 9 > won't be ported to Intel 32bit. You would be amazed at the number > of people "threatening" to go to FreeBSD in the Sun forums, > almost more than are "threatening" to go to Linux. That sounds like good news. Given how a Solaris box is pretty useless until you've installed some packages on it, I don't think Solaris users will find it weird that they should have to install a package to get tic(1). I think a solution in the ports tree that produces a package should be enough. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message