Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:14:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com> Cc: FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990726191430.B51019@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C15405A@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>; from Radu-Cristian FOTESCU on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:27:39PM %2B0300 References: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C15405A@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>
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On Monday, 26 July 1999 at 12:27:39 +0300, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: >> Yes, you're definitely confused. What does Yahoo! have to do with the >> issue? The Ports Collection is part of FreeBSD. > > No, you're confused, because you haven't read _carefully_ the whole! I read the whole, carefully. > It was about those Linux apps that can be compiled also under > FreeBSD [so, 99% of them], those apps whose authors does NOT e-mail > you at FreeBSD to tell you about their existance! Ah. Then you should have said so. If you don't say what you mean, you make people think you're confused. > For instance, win32 apps [freeware/shareware] can easily be found at > sites like shareware.com, freewaresite.com, etc. etc. Linux apps > cam be found also at linuxapps.com and, of course, serching with any > search engine [y compris Yahoo] and finding, in various pages, that > someone did something "for Linux". Fine. > Now, for Linux there is at least one page [that is linuxapps.com] > which is trying to list Linux apps w. sources, apps that are NOT > included in any Linux distribution!!! So, not into FreeBSD/ports > neither, presumedly! Why do you presume that? > Capito? Not really. I think you're a little confused. Just because a program (even a Linux program) isn't included in any Linux distribution doesn't mean that it isn't in the Ports Collection. You appear to be new on the FreeBSD scene. I suspect you still haven't understood some of the cultural differences. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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