Re: Debian/GNU Freebsd

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Jonathan Walther wrote:
> 
> We should call it Debian GNU/BSD, not Debian GNU/Freebsd.  There are 3 BSD's
> out there, but they are all BSD at heart.

And which kernel do you want to use?  The one from FreeBSD?  Or the
one from NetBSD?  Or even the one from OpenBSD?

> Actually, I've often wanted a Linux distro that was the reverse of what
> people want here:  A distro based on FreeBSD, but with the Linux kernel
> plunked in, and the appropriate accompanying software.

Go ahead and invent it.  But I've been told and I had to learn that
package maintenance and *BSD seem to live in two different universes.
Thus, using Debian GNU together with a FreeBSD or NetBSD kernel people
can retry to use *BSD.

Regards,

	Joey

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