Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:18:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: Gueven Bay <gueven.bay@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Menhir -the four-way distro with FBSD - is starting now Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707180912550.6989@reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <13413b8f0707170802i75c11a97gef36008aa40484ea@mail.gmail.com> References: <13413b8f0707170802i75c11a97gef36008aa40484ea@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Gueven Bay wrote: > To build the knowledge following development projects are started in > the Menhir project: > * A document based on "BSD Associate Exam Objectives" will be written > which guides every user in the use and administration of FreeBSD, > NetBSD, Slackware and OpenSolaris. BSD-licensed documentation covering the BSD Certification Group's Associate (BSDA) Certification Requirements Document (also known as the BSDA Exam Objectives) is available via http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/ You can use that to jump start your effort. (Or please consider joining there and adding or improving the existing "bsdwiki book".) > * The base systems of Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenSolaris are > ported to the pkgsrc format. After finishing this project everyone > will be able to install the operating systems with their userland > using the pkgsrc tools. This sounds interesting. I did the same thing with my own "pkglinux" distribution a few years ago and ran it for a couple years. I had pkgsrc packages for Linux kernels, glibc, and all essential Linux components -- see the pkgsrc-wip project for most of this). Jeremy C. Reed
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