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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:08:09 +0100
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Correction of typo
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At 2:02 PM -0700 2000/3/13, Brett Glass wrote:

>  Sorry, but Apache, Samba, and 99% of the other packages on those
>  discs are not products of the FreeBSD Project. It has no control
>  over their development nor their quality.

	Why don't you do this:

		cd /usr/ports
		make install

	And watch to see how many FreeBSD-specific patches are applied?


	Yes, the base products are from other teams, but there is a very 
clear value-add that FreeBSD provides by integrating recent versions 
of their products and applying FreeBSD-specific patches to them so 
that they will interoperate best with the OS.


	When you do the above and generate a CD-ROM from the output, the 
result is clearly a FreeBSD product.  Heck, I doubt that any of those 
binaries would even begin to run with any other OS, even another 
flavour of BSD on the same hardware platform.

	That's about as FreeBSD-specific as you can get.

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