Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:39:21 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD Message-ID: <cb5206420510151339o1852772m50a9d890b67bf6b7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7988846E-6A27-4F8F-BED6-B83A05A21477@u.washington.edu> References: <435154E0.7050106@comcast.net> <435156E9.8000601@trancegeek.net> <7988846E-6A27-4F8F-BED6-B83A05A21477@u.washington.edu>
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On 10/16/05, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Oct 15, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Tom Norris wrote: > > > Sean wrote: > > > >> Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD > >> operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term > >> goal of the Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any > >> combination of *BSD or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD > >> or GNU userland tools. > >> > > > > > > I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :( > > Oh well, I'm going try to not to be a jerk until I at least *try* > > their product. > > I do like how their compiling and feature management works, ie > portage as opposed to ports (it's done through stability/arch masks > and feature 'compile flags'), but it still isn't 100% kosher and > doesn't work all the time even in native Gentoo Linux. > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > > The original idea belongs to the Debian project. See here: http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ Such projects help us (in theory, at least) improve the linux compatibility layer.
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