From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 11:34:34 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 5D5BE16A4CE; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:34:34 +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 C490743D5D; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:34:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j2VBYkb80185; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:34:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:34:32 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" 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: <20050331123135.X37549@maren.thelosingend.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Ronald Klop 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 11:34:34 -0000 owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > * Ted Mittelstaedt [2005-03-31 01:45 -0800] >> > 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 think you misunderstood. Noone is asking to add firefox (or > any other > third-party application) to the base system. I think the OP is asking > the FreeBSD community to put some pressure on third-party vendors to > make freebsd-packages available on their websites. This way the > word "FreeBSD" > would be mentioned and hopefully noticed. > I should have been more clear. I knew what the OP was suggesting, it is impractical though because you can't just compile firefox then package it up, then install the package and be done with it. Along with that package you would have to install a number of other packages. On other systems like Linux you don't have to install these since they are already part of the base Linux system. Ted