Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 12:50:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> That's cool. The license the DFSG, we can pinch the kernel and package it up
> :-) Then port/rebuild all the tools, packaging BSD-specific ones where
> needed.
>
> I installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 here. My main comments were:
> * The setup dumps the software on your disk but does nothing to configure
> it for you. I don't think any configuration was done of sendmail,
> for example.
>
> * Everything except the very core is installed in /usr/local. This seems
> rather daft to me!
>
> We would end up with Debian GNU/Linux running on BSD. We would like it,
> but the BSDers would probably hate it. So then you have to wonder whether
> the kernel is actually better than Linux, and if not, is it worth doing?
Oooh. I can imagine it already; OpenBSD's crypto
and security with Debian package handling. Drool.
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