Re: Bunch of questions before trying Debian/KfreeBSD
Hi, Petr,
I just wanted to say thanks for responding to my query. I'm just going to
have to try it.
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Scotty
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 03:05, Petr Salinger wrote:
> > Most importantly, I am looking to maximize free software available to me.
> > So I wanted to know, if I run Debian/kfreebsd does this mean I can use
> > the FreeBSD ports collection in addition to the debian testing
> > repositories? I would like to know, if there is a ports collection of a
> > package, and a debian package, does that mean I get to pick and choose
> > which version?
>
> You cannot mix FreeBSD ports collection and debian packages in one
> directory structure. But you can install whole plain FreeBSD with port
> collection in chroot and use it.
>
> > am curious if QEMU running Win2k has been tried under Debian/kfreebsd.
>
> QEMU under Debian GNU/kFreeBSD works. I do not expect any differences
> for running Win2k from Debian GNU/Linux, but it is up to you to test it.
>
> Petr
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