Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 16:10:36 -0500 From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> To: 'Joseph Scott' <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> Cc: 'Haikal Saadh' <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: BSD software [was Re: The Bazaar part II] Message-ID: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF9ADA63@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>
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> Take a look at the packages collection, these are prebuilt binaries > based on the ports collection. Ok, maybe I'm just not clear enough. I know about the ports collections. I use it religiously. But, there has to be apps for freeBSD that exist outside of the ports collections. My favorite mail app from Linux doesn't exist anywhere on a FreeBSD, not in the ports not in the packages. But, the Home page of the apps suggested that it has be compile against FreeBSD. So, I download the source and compiled it for FBSD. I'm just suggesting a FreeBSD centric site that includes such apps that aren't found anywhere on FreeBSD.org in a binary and source package - not necessarily a FreeBSD package, maybe just a binary tar. I think were arguing for the same thing but with different formats. > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Scott [SMTP:joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu] > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 3:50 PM > To: Person, Roderick > Cc: 'Haikal Saadh'; Chris Coleman; advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: BSD software [was Re: The Bazaar part II] > > > "Person, Roderick" wrote: > > > > I would say you need to spawn a site off either, but there need to be > more > > sites. People want choices variety. People are greedy and want to be > able to > > sustain that greed whether it's for food, knowledge, money or what have > you. > > > > I would be leery of a daemon news/ freshmet venture, it could do more > harm > > then good making FreeBSD just another Linux Distro. > > I wasn't really thinking of a joint venture so much as a site in the > same vain as freshmeat.net ( vain != design ) for the ports/packages > collection. > > > > > Look at this site http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~conradp/linux/test.html . > > Every link here is Linux. Linux Magazines, Clothing tons and tons of > Linux > > only stuff. This is what I mean by need more web sites, more diversity > in > > the sites. The Ports Tree is a wonderful thing, but if you want to take > the > > FreeBSD market where the Linux market is the more pre-compile binaries > need > > to be available. Not everyone wants to download the entire ports > collection > > and do builds via a network connections. It all depends on what market > your > > targeting what type of additions need to be made. Myself I like the > world > > domination scope of attack. > > > -- > > Joseph Scott > joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu > Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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