From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 7:29:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peckdani-2.user.msu.edu (peckdani-2.user.msu.edu [35.11.173.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C80137B41D for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 07:29:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by peckdani-2.user.msu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2HFTmf42468; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:29:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:29:48 -0500 From: Dan Peck To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which Linux for a long-time FreeBSD user? Message-ID: <20020317102947.A41395@peckdani-2.user.msu.edu> References: <15508.26709.552773.464882@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <15508.26709.552773.464882@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1016790998.1dee4e@mired.org on Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 03:56:37AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've never actually used either, but gentoo has it's own version of ports ("portage"), and I believe for the most part is source based, another one I've heard good things about would be Sourcerer, but as I said, I've neither used either . . . -Dan On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 03:56:37AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Hello all, > > No, I'm not going to quit running FreeBSD. However, I want to use the > Linux kernel module from the Gatos project. I may at some point try > and port it into the FreeBSD kernel - especially if someone agrees to > convert the Brooktree driver to provide the same API. However, for > now, I'm going to run it under Linux. > > The question is - which one? Anyone have recommendations for the most > BSD-like Linux distro? I'll need one that I can add the module to, > etc. > > Thanx, > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- "Your theory is cray, but it's not crazy enough to be true." --Neils Bohr. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message