Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 19:02:15 -0400 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication... Message-ID: <CAKYr3zy9P-t83tKDm_9Jjbx3nd=w7MWC%2B48i7venTx19KTwAWA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C6.6A.21955.6AF14BF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com> References: <C6.6A.21955.6AF14BF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>
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On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com> w= rote: > Umm, it's about as factual as The Onion, except not as funny. =A0FreeBSD > never had to "jettison two thirds of its code base and start from > scratch". =A0Apple is not involved in FreeBSD development. =A0No Mac OS X= or > Darwin version "includes" FreeBSD. =A0FreeBSD and Mac OS X will never > merge. =A0FreeBSD was never acquired by WinDriver Systems or by anyone > else, although a company named WindRiver Systems (makers of the embedded > operating system VxWorks, not of Windows video drivers) did at one point > acquire BSDI, which had previously acquired Walnut Creek CD-ROM, which > was heavily involved in the early history of both FreeBSD and Slackware > Linux. =A0The remains of Walnut Creek CD-ROM and BSDI are now known as > FreeBSD Mall and iXsystems (of PC-BSD and FreeNAS fame). > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no > > I was a long-time subscriber to Slackware going back to Walnut Creek CDRO= M days (Slackware 96 to the best of my memory, but < 3.0). > > I believe FreeBSD Mall and Slackware (store.slackware.com) are connected.= =A0I had a difficult time terminating my Slackware subscription, customer = service ignoring me, thought I was going to have to have my credit card num= ber changed to jilt Slackware. =A0I noticed the similarity in subscription = arrangement between FreeBSD Mall and store.slackware.com. > > Slackware package system is geared to binary packages rather than buildin= g from source, and there is no tracking of dependencies. =A0A package can b= e installed even if dependencies are missing, and that even happened in Sla= ckware releases, as I found when I tried unsuccessfully to run gnumeric man= y releases ago, got the message of missing library. =A0Seeing the better pa= ckage managers in FreeBSD (ports), NetBSD (pkgsrc, and ported to other (qua= si-)Unix OSes), and several Linux distributions is what made me not want to= go further with Slackware. =A0Multimedia files failing to play may have be= en due to lack of proper package management. > > Tom Guess his next claim will be that the kernel was forked from minix, and userland came from QNX........... some people are just plain.... (biting my tongue) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "
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