From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 22:02:50 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 46FDE16A41F for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:02:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beyert@cs.ucr.edu) Received: from mxsf42.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf42.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D20C43D7C for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:02:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beyert@cs.ucr.edu) Received: from mxip01a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip01a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.131]) by mxsf42.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7KM2fq2028061 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:02:41 -0400 Received: from 66-215-246-57.dhcp.rvsd.ca.charter.com (HELO aeonserv.aeonnet) ([66.215.246.57]) by mxip01a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 20 Aug 2005 18:02:41 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.96,128,1122868800"; d="scan'208"; a="1171473556:sNHT30850172" Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:06:32 -0700 Message-ID: <87oe7sz2jb.wl%beyert@cs.ucr.edu> From: Timothy Beyer To: Nikolas Britton In-Reply-To: References: <4306EAB7.4090001@skyforge.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 17) (Jumbo Shrimp) (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 22:02:50 -0000 At Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:18:47 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > On 8/20/05, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > 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? > > > > Licensing. > > > > 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? I don't really see the point in this. I can't think of any reason to do this other than to have application compatibility with games and Cedega. (in which case, you might as well make a stable wine distribution instead) If you made such drastic modifications to Linux, I think it would take a lot of code to get most applications working again, and the result would be really messy. Not to mention trying to figure out which lines of code were BSD licensed and which were GPL licensed. The MirBSD/Linux project does something like this, but based on what I've discussed with the author, it isn't necessarily going to run most applications. Quoted from his page "purely as a quick and weird idea, qua the absolute contrary of Debian GNU/NetBSD." --Tim