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Date:      Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:44:03 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20051015204402.GB60135@flame.pc>
In-Reply-To: <7988846E-6A27-4F8F-BED6-B83A05A21477@u.washington.edu>
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On 2005-10-15 13:12, 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.

I can only wish them "good luck", in all honesty :)




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