Re: beta?

[Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>]

Hi.


On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Vim Visual wrote:

> I am looking forward to getting a stable release of debian-bsd. I have
> read in the web page that there are still a couple of major bugs.
> Which are these?

Missing installer, not in official debian.org archive, just unstable
archive (not etch/testing), "only" 80% packages ported.

For etch archive coverage, see also http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/NOTES

> Now, I would like to go for the whole thing and install xorg etc etc
> but... how worhty is it? I don't want to spend many hours on one thing
> that's going to break often.

"apt-get update" and "apt-get install xserver-xorg x-window-system-core" 
should suffice.

> One more question: What is the licence? Is it "GPL Nr X and ABOVE"
> (that word proved to be important, as Linus removed it from its kernel
> and now doesn't want to update the gpl version) or is it BSD?

Each package have own licence, for kernel see 
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/k/kfreebsd-5/current/copyright

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Paolo Lulli wrote:

> Hi, I subscribed to the list just some day ago and was wondering about 
> the activity on the list. I've been a debian user for a long time, and 
> now I'm using FreeBSD with great satisfaction. I have already my own 
> recompiled kernel and so on... If there were something like a "bare 
> working networked" system, I would be interested into contributing to 
> the development, as I often find myself into scripting boring 
> activities, writing quick & dirty C workarounds and the like... But, to 
> do so, I need a usable system, a system that could be my own, everyday 
> up and running. Could this be the case, or is it in an earlier state of 
> development ?

I am able to use x-windows, networking, browse internet via konqueror or 
iceape (mozilla), burn CD, watch TV via xawtv, ...

I would say it is rather useable system.

Petr