On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:16, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:31:53PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 14:54, Todd Marek wrote: > > > has anyone here used Debian NetBSD yet? if so how does it compare to > > > debian linux? > > > > Not that I've used it, but I thought it had been tripped up some due to > > certain core parts being under a BSD license that proves to be not > > exactly free, > > s/free/GPL-compatible/ > > That said, I don't think this is a major stumbling block. > > I know one of the guys working on Debian GNU/NetBSD, and have watched > him hacking on it on occasion; it works in the sense that it boots, runs > a reasonable installation of standard packages, and he can use it. I > don't think anybody's claiming it's ready for general use in the same > way Debian GNU/Linux is, though. > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk] Some more tasty sole-of-foot there on my part - when you deal with the GPL in the middle of so much of what you are dealing with, sometimes I slip-up and equate GPL-compatibility with a definition of free. It does make it awkward when being free doesn't mean being able to work together due to incompatibilities :( All that said, there is much chatter on Debian-BSD that there is a drive to release as part of the next release cycle - that it would be a release of Debian GNU, with a choice of underlying kernels and libs. Similar rumbling arises on the Debian-Hurd list, but I get the impression that some more work is needed there. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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