Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 23:18:01 +0200 From: Olaf Hoyer <Inferno@nightfire.de> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU/FreeBSD (was: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning?) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010709231202.024b0330@post.strato.de> In-Reply-To: <20010707063121.E1368@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <3B412280.ED210541@mail.ptd.net> <20010630174743.A85268@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010630173455.T344@teleport.com> <20010701032900.A93049@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010701132353.W344@teleport.com> <20010702152649.A18127@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010702180222.A2667@hades.hell.gr> <3B412280.ED210541@mail.ptd.net>
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> >He's done that. But he was talking about a BSD which would have >almost only GNU userland. People keep talking about a Debian >GNU/FreeBSD, for example. HI! Just returning from german Linuxtag. I had some extensive talks there with the debian guys (I went home with one of their developers living on my city...) There are talks inside debian community to create something like a (GNU/debian)/OpenBSD. Basically, some of their developers think or wonder about the technical possibility to harden the Linux system or making it more secure. Basic idea is to take the OpenBSD kernel and basic userland, and add some extended portions of GNU userland (where no approp. BSD userland will be available) and add some sophisticated features like debian package management. This is highly debated inside the developers, if this is (technically) possible without great hassle, and if it would be better to take OpenBSD as some model and write something own modeled after techniques from BSD. This is only a consideration some developers are discussing at the moment, and not to be taken as official statement of the debian project. Olaf Hoyer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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