From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 26 2:44:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E52014FB6 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 02:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA15401; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:14:33 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id TAA59873; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:14:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:14:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU Cc: FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990726191430.B51019@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Radu-Cristian FOTESCU on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:27:39PM +0300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 26 July 1999 at 12:27:39 +0300, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: >> Yes, you're definitely confused. What does Yahoo! have to do with the >> issue? The Ports Collection is part of FreeBSD. > > No, you're confused, because you haven't read _carefully_ the whole! I read the whole, carefully. > It was about those Linux apps that can be compiled also under > FreeBSD [so, 99% of them], those apps whose authors does NOT e-mail > you at FreeBSD to tell you about their existance! Ah. Then you should have said so. If you don't say what you mean, you make people think you're confused. > For instance, win32 apps [freeware/shareware] can easily be found at > sites like shareware.com, freewaresite.com, etc. etc. Linux apps > cam be found also at linuxapps.com and, of course, serching with any > search engine [y compris Yahoo] and finding, in various pages, that > someone did something "for Linux". Fine. > Now, for Linux there is at least one page [that is linuxapps.com] > which is trying to list Linux apps w. sources, apps that are NOT > included in any Linux distribution!!! So, not into FreeBSD/ports > neither, presumedly! Why do you presume that? > Capito? Not really. I think you're a little confused. Just because a program (even a Linux program) isn't included in any Linux distribution doesn't mean that it isn't in the Ports Collection. You appear to be new on the FreeBSD scene. I suspect you still haven't understood some of the cultural differences. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message