Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:17:36 +0000 From: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: "'Haikal Saadh'" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD software [was Re: The Bazaar part II] Message-ID: <385956F0.35094355@owp.csus.edu> References: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF9ADA63@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>
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"Person, Roderick" wrote: > >> Take a look at the packages collection, these are prebuilt binaries >> based on the ports collection. > Ok, maybe I'm just not clear enough. I know about the ports collections. I > use it religiously. But, there has to be apps for freeBSD that exist outside > of the ports collections. My favorite mail app from Linux doesn't exist > anywhere on a FreeBSD, not in the ports not in the packages. But, the Home > page of the apps suggested that it has be compile against FreeBSD. So, I > download the source and compiled it for FBSD. I'm just suggesting a FreeBSD > centric site that includes such apps that aren't found anywhere on > FreeBSD.org in a binary and source package - not necessarily a FreeBSD > package, maybe just a binary tar. > > I think were arguing for the same thing but with different formats. Ok I think I see what you are talking about. Would it be safe to sum up what you are describing as : something similar to freshmeat.net with a focus on FreeBSD apps? That being said you may want to check out : http://www.bsdapps.org I'm not sure how much is there. It takes work to come up with all this stuff :-) If you are interested in something like a freshmeat.net for BSD then I would either talk to the bsdapps.org folks and help them by volunteering some time/effort or come up with a design/proposal for a new site. -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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