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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:14:02 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: eliminating GPL apps on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <cq42ba$2su2$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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Jorge Mario G. <murcielako@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was about to send this same list
> also there is a BSD awk

You mean Brian Kernighan's awk.  FreeBSD already uses that.
(When talking about changing FreeBSD, please look at -CURRENT or
at least 5.x, not 4.x.)

> the OpenBSD dudes are working on OpenCVS

That's still under construction and not in production use anywhere.

> 2.  why not import OpenNTPD? it works too

OpenNTPD only supports a tiny subset of the features of Mills ntpd.
While the idea behind OpenNTPD is to be good enough for the large
majority of people, you can't just treat it as a replacement.  It
also doesn't deal well with local clock drift yet.

(Yes, I think FreeBSD will eventually want to adopt OpenNTPD and
return Mills ntpd to ports for those few time keeping maniacs who
need it, but I'm not sure I want to advocate that at this point in
time.)

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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