Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:56:51 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000707215042.04834b00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000708021509.B1136@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007071219290.19763-100000@pebkac.owp.csus.edu> <4.3.2.7.2.20000707095841.047c6ee0@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007071219290.19763-100000@pebkac.owp.csus.edu>
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At 02:45 PM 7/7/2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >There's something rather obviously wrong with the BSD-compatibility- >for-linux argument, especially combined with your (Brett's) ideas that >linux guys will want to screw BSD at the first opportunity. If that >is the case (and even if not, actually), you may write a perfect >FreeBSD compatibility layer, but how are you going to get the big >linux distributions to include it? The same way Sun got Microsoft to include Java. Get a buzz going. Get developers to write for it as a universal API/ABI, so users demand it. Let developers include it on their CDs, so that even if it's not in the distro it is installed with the app. >On a related note I saw this interesting article (didn't preserve the >link, it may be there on lwn.net or someplace) on how the big linux >distributors aren't themselves using a lot of the software they give >their public. That's because the ones they use are often commercial. They don't have the right to redistribute them. They put on the disks what they are allowed to. One thing I wish that FreeBSD did was give you ALL of Sendmail. Right now, you get a precompiled Sendmail, plus a standard sendmail.cf and m4. But you don't get the stuff that's required to use m4 to make a new sendmail.cf with different options! You have to bring in all of sendmail to do that. I'd rather see an all-or-nothing approach. Either give me ALL of Sendmail or leave me with just /bin/mail and a POP client. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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