From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Oct 28 09:11:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20268 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:11:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA20263 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:11:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id JAA25960; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:11:14 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id JAA08913; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:11:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:10:55 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Wes Peters cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) In-Reply-To: <36374AFD.CABEEEED@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Wes Peters wrote: >> The process of "Work with" should be transparent to the end user. I >> believe Terry L. proposed simply using existing package dependencies >> system to determine if software uses the Linuxulator. > >So, someone who reports that the SCO version of Froboz Corp FroSQL server >will work on FreeBSD under the SCO emulator is just noise? No, this is (When I use the example of the Linuxulator I am not excluding SCO so no, the person you mentioned above is not just making noise.) >a volunteer effort, and we should encourage participation as much as >possible. Let's not try to over-complicate this out of existence, this >project has far too much history of people wanting to build giant infra- >structure but not being willing to step up and implement it. I think there is a miscommunication here. When I say the process of "Works with" should be transparent I mean that any software should be as easy to install as a FreeBSD port. The Linux Netscape port is a prime example. The Linux Netscape is as easy to install as any native software. This requires no development of a giant infrastructure. FWIW, I think that all of the technicalities are already covered by the ports mechanism and existing FreeBSD technology. I view this branding effort as an advertising effort and not a technology development effort. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message