From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 16 20: 6:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B731137B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com (bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4732243E72 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:06:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawkeyd@visi.com) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by bodb.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567AD4B44; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:06:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7H36RZ85402; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:06:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:06:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200208170306.g7H36RZ85402@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Organization: if (!FIFO) if (!LIFO) break; References: <3D5AE112.C2F8CCF7_mindspring.com@ns.sol.net> <002501c243e7$9c1ae5b0$2000000a_tsndual933@ns.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <002501c243e7$9c1ae5b0$2000000a_tsndual933@ns.sol.net> From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) Subject: Re: OT: Debian GNU/FreeBSD??? X-Original-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.current To: mariog@tomservo.cc, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <002501c243e7$9c1ae5b0$2000000a_tsndual933@ns.sol.net>, mariog@tomservo.cc writes: >> > http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/index >> > >> > I was slightly irritated when a pal showed me that! >> >> Why? > > I thought FreeBSD wants no distros to avoid all the distrochaos Linux got > right now. Debian is rather contraproductive to that. Luckily it aint > popular. > > -mg I can't understand the resoning for even doing this. For the Linux userland (i.e., GNU utilities)? I _much_ prefer the FreeBSD userland... Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message