Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 12:13:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: bfulgham@xpsystems.com (Brent Fulgham) Cc: publisher@laptop.ompages.com, gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) Message-ID: <199907091913.MAA02542@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <21D757CECBD2D211AD5D00105A2974A73ED646@EXCHANGE> from Brent Fulgham at "Jul 9, 99 10:45:10 am"
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According to Brent Fulgham: [[ ... ]] > > We did discuss doing a Debian BSD distribution, but we had > some question as to whether there would be much interest > in doing so, or in using it. We also weren't sure what kind > of response we would receive from the BSD community, and > whether we would be seen as an abomination. ;-) By whom?:) Most of us BSD'ers are not so narrow-minded .... I'm an admitted hardcore unix bigot, but that's the limit of my "religious-biases." > > The short-term plan was to create a BSD kernel module that > could be used on a regular Debian system, perhaps using > the BSD Linux-compatibility code. Our distribution already > spans two binary CD's for each ARCHITECTURE. So, we would > have a tremendous amount of additional space needed to > host a completely-native BSD distribution as well. > > We did feel that FreeBSD would probably be the best distribution > to base such a beast on. We would probably be distributing it as > Debian GNU/BSD, or perhaps Debian GNU/FreeBSD... > Sounds like a win-win any way you look at it. When you've got a Core group of 5 or 10 going, write me (kline@thought.org) and I'll sign-on to your devel and ports lists. gary -- Gary Kline Tera Computer Company To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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