From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 11 14:57:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E00D71065670 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:57:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54FF8FC0C for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:57:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.magehandbook.com (mail.darkmindweb.net [192.168.1.100]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA602845B for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:57:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 152.121.16.253 (SquirrelMail authenticated user daniel) by www.magehandbook.com with HTTP; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:57:24 -0400 Message-ID: <54c539845f6c2ff410c50d7963652524.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <270355.93189.qm@web113720.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <25997.86221.qm@web113704.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <270355.93189.qm@web113720.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:57:24 -0400 From: "Daniel Staal" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: DStaal@usa.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:57:29 -0000 On Mon, April 11, 2011 9:56 am, Stefan N wrote: > Hi Christer, > > As there are many parts of the source code(from > bin,cddl,contrib......usr.sbin), > which part(s) of source code do I need to modify? That would depend. What is your derivative going to do differently than FreeBSD? Which brings in the more general question: Why? What's the purpose of your derivative? Why should people use yours over FreeBSD? Not that there aren't possible good reasons. ;) But answering that will probably tell you what you need to do to create your derivative. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------