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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:41:59 +0100
From:      "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
To:        "'Justin T. Gibbs'" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: What makes it FreeBSD...
Message-ID:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D70@l04.research.kpn.com>

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Dear All,

> >
> >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.
> 
To me, what makes it FreeBSD is the fact that it came straight off
cvsup.*.freebsd.org. We are fortunate to have a centralised distribution
schema, so we can actually distinguish what is freebsd and what is
(technically) not (darwin, trustedbsd).

    Kees Jan

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