Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:14:14 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Adam Turoff <aturoff@isinet.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <4.1.19990302181055.00ad67a0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903021709310.20217-100000@peloton.physics.m ontana.edu> References: <4.1.19990302163944.00a1e620@localhost>
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At 05:21 PM 3/2/99 -0700, Brett Taylor wrote: >Hint 1 - no one ASKS people to maintain ports. Like all of FreeBSD you >volunteer to help. I've volunteered on several occasions and did not meet with a warm response. >You could certainly volunteer some of your time to try >to make an a.out ports tree that stays in lockstep w/ the STABLE tree. Again, you're not being creatve or innovative here. Again, why not just adapt the Linux emulator to bring in FreeBSD ELFs? >It's not that it's hard to get it to do ELF _or_ a.out but to be able to >do BOTH in one system. Until you actually start trying to maintain some >ports and do some work in this area, or let Satoshi explain to you in >simple terms WHY it's hard then it's clear we're not going anywhere. Then eliminate the need for that. Again, you're not "thinking outside the box." I think it requires a certain level of maturity to think in terms of the users who want a stable, tested version rather than the bleeding edge and accommodate them. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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