From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 21:18:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11DF16A41F for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:18:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60F643D45 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:18:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i4so783569wra for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:18:49 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hbLJq0VLyz61F/J31CZgKiGEbBW0J4RkyWRw03ZoYanm9dRqHcbtqnyRePWRIbbfaoj9MoCz0oRD6WuYnbb7cJn6c31wcuNZg45snVs+Lv5DUIKSbgYgv8MFg4gfqqbT+X2MUIcN89hqP01f8CER3yCrr2DpGDd1yhnUmONAA8Y= Received: by 10.54.6.50 with SMTP id 50mr587601wrf; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.124.11 with HTTP; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:18:47 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton To: "Jeremy C. Reed" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4306EAB7.4090001@skyforge.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDLinux OS X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:18:52 -0000 On 8/20/05, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: >=20 > > What defines Berkeley UNIX from SysV style UNIX and Linux?... What > > makes BSD BSD and SysV SysV. We have the lineage from 4.4BSD-Lite but > > what else? >=20 > Licensing. >=20 > Central development of libraries (like libc) and kernel and more (central > per project). That's one of the things I really like about the *BSDs. Could we just take the 2.6 kernel and develop it as are own like we do with BIND and Sendmail, fork it? and keep the FreeBSD libs, just port them to the new kernel? >=20 > Are there any free-to-use tools for testing various standards (tools and > functions) and reporting? ?