From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 18 16:38:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3360316A408 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:38:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reedmedia.net (228.sub-75-209-77.myvzw.com [75.209.77.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E81D13C4A3 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:38:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by reedmedia.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IBCDx-000249-00; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:18:01 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:18:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: Gueven Bay In-Reply-To: <13413b8f0707170802i75c11a97gef36008aa40484ea@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <13413b8f0707170802i75c11a97gef36008aa40484ea@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Menhir -the four-way distro with FBSD - is starting now X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:38:05 -0000 On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Gueven Bay wrote: > To build the knowledge following development projects are started in > the Menhir project: > * A document based on "BSD Associate Exam Objectives" will be written > which guides every user in the use and administration of FreeBSD, > NetBSD, Slackware and OpenSolaris. BSD-licensed documentation covering the BSD Certification Group's Associate (BSDA) Certification Requirements Document (also known as the BSDA Exam Objectives) is available via http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/ You can use that to jump start your effort. (Or please consider joining there and adding or improving the existing "bsdwiki book".) > * The base systems of Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenSolaris are > ported to the pkgsrc format. After finishing this project everyone > will be able to install the operating systems with their userland > using the pkgsrc tools. This sounds interesting. I did the same thing with my own "pkglinux" distribution a few years ago and ran it for a couple years. I had pkgsrc packages for Linux kernels, glibc, and all essential Linux components -- see the pkgsrc-wip project for most of this). Jeremy C. Reed