From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 16:07:33 2005 Return-Path: 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 57C5B16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:07:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailserv1.neuroflux.com (ns2.neuroflux.com [204.228.228.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA76143D1F for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:07:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: (qmail 10361 invoked by uid 89); 9 Feb 2005 16:04:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www2.neuroflux.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Feb 2005 16:04:56 -0000 Received: from 208.4.77.66 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ryans@gamersimpact.com); by www2.neuroflux.com with HTTP; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:04:56 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <50141.208.4.77.66.1107965096.squirrel@208.4.77.66> In-Reply-To: <20050209154131.GA24122@droopy.unibe.ch> References: <20050209145329.GA27679@wirehub.nl> <20050209152511.62367.qmail@web26801.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20050209154131.GA24122@droopy.unibe.ch> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:04:56 -0700 (MST) From: "Ryan Sommers" To: "Tobias Roth" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Claus Guttesen Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:07:33 -0000 Tobias Roth said: > My favorite quote from that article: > > "In addition, the project is also working on porting baselayout to > Gentoo/FreeBSD in such a way that makes the management of startup > services as easy as in Gentoo Linux." > > They cannot possibly be serious... Personally, instead of laughing at them I think we need to embrace their efforts. Corporate development and backing is one area Linux has the clear advantage over FreeBSD and something like the Gentoo name coupled with FreeBSD can help spread the word. I applaud their effort to merge FreeBSD with their own projects. While I think they might be a little stuck in the Linux way of seperating userland and kernel, "In a separate effort we are also looking into porting the glibc and GNU userland to the FreeBSD kernel". We might be able to convince them to our side of the BSD vs GPL fence. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com