Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 14:28:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: brett@lariat.org, seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape browser Message-ID: <199903201428.HAA07045@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <52189.921875486@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 19, 99 12:31:26 pm
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> An emulation that the typical Linux user had to download and > incorporate into their kernel in order to get it to work would, by no > means, make the average software vendor jump up and down about how > FreeBSD was now a universal API (as Brett desires). That's too much > to expect of the typical Linux user. That means you couldn't just > take the "doesn't matter" attitude here since you'd want the emulation > *bundled* into Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, etc. in order to be > effective. Please, at least think things through to a minimal degree > while you're making your wish lists. :) Linux would be paid. They'd get the entirety of the ports and packages, with all of the automation and build repeatability that the Linux soloutions don't bring to the table. Frankly, I can't imagine at least one or two distributions wouldn't fall totally in line and adopt the FreeBSD user space for the same automation and build repeatability reasons. FreeBSD has already been approached about something similar by Debian, albiet in a somewhat introverted fashion. One warning here: the Larry McVoy clock is ticking on the source code control for full Linux distributions. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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