From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 11 7:42: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C7237B401; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 07:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from K.J.Koster@kpn.com) Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:42:00 +0100 Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D70@l04.research.kpn.com> From: "Koster, K.J." To: "'Justin T. Gibbs'" , Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: What makes it FreeBSD... Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:41:59 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 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 ===================================================== You can't have everything. Where would you put it? [Steven Wright] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message