From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 11 7:34:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (aslan.scsiguy.com [63.229.232.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B50CC37B401; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 07:34:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Received: from scsiguy.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f6BEYBU36829; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:34:12 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Message-Id: <200107111434.f6BEYBU36829@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What makes it FreeBSD... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jul 2001 23:16:26 BST." <20010709231626.B16152@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:34:11 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >It's reasonable to want to control what get's called FreeBSD. > Certainly. But I think it has to go beyond the installer. We should define an environment that third party applications can depend on being available in any installation that claims to be FreeBSD. Without this, you have the same environement that Linux does where third party apps are only qualified on distribution U and X and have no hope of working on distributions Y and Z. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message