Re: [Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>] Re: Debian & BSD concerns
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 11:22:21PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 11:54:22PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > Now to address the issue of choice, what have you got against it? No
> > > there isn't a whole lot to be gained on the technical side from a BSD
> > > kernel in a Debian operating system, not for Linux anyway. For the most
> > > part it would be the BSD project whose kernel we used that would benefit.
> >
> > That's quite an arrogant view. You're assuming that FreeBSD users do
> > not find their user space quite adequate as-is.
>
> On the contrary. We aren't using their userspace so their userspace
> wouldn't benefit from our work much. Their kernel would.
You're suggesting that we take their kernel but not their user space,
implying that our user space is better than theirs.
Hamish
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