From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 09:45:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA4916A4CE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:45:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442FD43D60 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:45:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j2V9jqb79306; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:45:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Ronald Klop" , Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:45:38 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: making freebsd known to the world X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:45:42 -0000 owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > Hello, > > Maybe this is the wrong list for this, It is, you need to go to freebsd-advocacy > but why is FreeBSD never > listed on websites of third party applications like firefox? > In this directory I can't find a FreeBSD package for example. > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.1/contrib/ > Have you ever built firefox? It requires about 28 ports or so that are not in the base FreeBSD install, at least for version 4.11, and that is for the native version of it. And many of these are GPL so you are just adding trouble for BSD users who need a system they can use as a base for a commercial product - the last thing they want to discover is their app linked into some GPL library. If the Linux distributors want to bloat their base systems for every 3rd party application that comes along that is fine. > I know the ports/packages system works great, so the freebsd user > doesn't need it, but wouldn't it be good for publicity? > It would. But why are you asking us, ask the Mozilla people why they haven't at least put up a link saying firefox is available in the ports directories. Ted