Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:44:00 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What makes it FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20010711164359.C90982@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200107111434.f6BEYBU36829@aslan.scsiguy.com>; from gibbs@scsiguy.com on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:34:11AM -0600 References: <20010709231626.B16152@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <200107111434.f6BEYBU36829@aslan.scsiguy.com>
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--dkEUBIird37B8yKS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:34:11AM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > > >It's reasonable to want to control what get's called FreeBSD. > > >=20 > 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. Agreed. If it doesn't include the bits in the CVS source repo, modulo standard knobs available for cutting bits out or frobbing things around, then it's not FreeBSD but something else based on FreeBSD. Kris --dkEUBIird37B8yKS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7TOS/Wry0BWjoQKURAvKWAKCKYSmDEPX4rOePaiaMTMeCYMcSUwCfWWrl 18SU83efJkEt9Uutzwki8gk= =vU28 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dkEUBIird37B8yKS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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