From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 12 13:22:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from zone.unixshell.com (zone.syracuse.net [209.2.141.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B756154F9 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:22:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ze5yr@zone.unixshell.com) Received: from localhost (ze5yr@localhost) by zone.unixshell.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA86285; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:22:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ze5yr@zone.unixshell.com) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:22:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Crawford To: Brett Glass Cc: Jay Nelson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Brett or no Brett? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990912134942.04a5d7a0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Brett Glass wrote: | In addition, the existence of multiple distributions means more contributions | of money, time, and advocacy by the creators of those distributions. This | can only be a good thing. Depends..what if each distributor starts putting in their own "enhancements" and different utilities and whatnot, a la Linux, to the point where the different distributions aren't compatible anymore? That would be BAD. :) That's what I really like about FreeBSD, there's one standard distro with the same setup and utilities installed everywhere. I do think it's important to disentangle FreeBSD from Walnut Creek, though. -- cliff crawford http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/ There are more stars in the sky than there are -><- grains of sand on all the beaches of the world. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message