From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jul 10 6:33:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from yodeller.rising.com.au (yodeller.rising.com.au [203.63.216.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDCD14EDB for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 06:33:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamish@rising.com.au) Received: from hamish by yodeller.rising.com.au with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 112xFt-0005E6-00; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:33:25 +1000 Message-ID: <19990710233325.C20013@rising.com.au> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:33:25 +1000 From: Hamish Moffatt To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, publisher@laptop.ompages.com Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, publisher@laptop.ompages.com, debian-devel@lists.debian.org References: <199907091429.HAA25261@deal1.bogs.org> <19990709091714.C973@laptop.ompages.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990709091714.C973@laptop.ompages.com>; from Nate on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:17:14AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:17:14AM -0700, Nate wrote: > There was a pretty long thread a few months ago, where debian > linux developers discussed incorporating the the FreeBSD kernel > into the debian software distribution. > > There is already Debian/GNU Linux, and Debian/GNU HURD. I believe > there may be people working on this now. I for one, would welcome > a debian distribution based on the freebsd kernel. > > I've used both freebsd and debian linux and I see the following problems > with each. But Nate, who would run such a system? I suspect FreeBSD users are quite happy with their user-space tools (like their own BSD fileutils, not the GNU ones, etc) and their ports system. I haven't found the ports system to be inferior to our packages, just different (I have 3.2-RELEASE installed here). I suspect Linux users are quite happy with Debian GNU/Linux as is stands now. I'm not interested in a flamewar, but I suspect that very few users would notice any difference between the kernels in terms of reliability, if indeed any difference at all. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message