From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Euv92-0000Sn-23 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:12:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k06HC5XU005419; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:12:05 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k06HACg6031630 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:10:12 GMT Received: from bmb24.med.uth.tmc.edu ([129.106.207.24] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1Euv6R-0000zV-UC for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:10:12 +0000 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:10:11 -0600 From: Grant Goodyear To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Message-ID: <20060106171011.GD5051@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <43B975FD.1000401@gentoo.org> <200601052030.36308.carlo@gentoo.org> <200601061223.57432@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: fd682e81-7951-4171-87a1-9a0e21578ea2 X-Archives-Hash: c4f4f0ac728c60ac8827210f8875bfa1 --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Duncan wrote: [Fri Jan 06 2006, 09:15:42AM CST] > Tell me, from someone who obviously has some FBSD experience, what > advantages does Gentoo/FreeBSD have over the normal FreeBSD? Why would > someone use it who is currently using regular FreeBSD, and why are you > spending the time? There are obviously reasons, as you're a very > talented person spending quite a bit of time on the project, but equally > obviously, I'm not familiar enough with them to make a good G/FBSD > representative, at this point. Most of the things that people like about Gentoo have little to do with the underlying C library, kernel, and userland. Instead, it's portage, sane configuration files, and dependency-based start-up scripts that tend to attract people, and as such it's not surprising that people would like to have all of that on a nominally *BSD-based system (for those people who actually do care about the underlying C library, kernel, and userland). That's the practical reason. A slightly more idealistic reason is that part of the Gentoo philosophy is that packages should work as portably as possible, and we should be a member-in-good-standing of the community. The native *BSD teams have been known to patch their ports to work on their systems without sending their patches upstream. We have a single portage tree that handles packages for all archs (and OSs), and our Alt teams work hard to generate patches that are (a) applied independent of arch/os/whatever and (b) sent upstream. Consequentl= y,=20 work on non-Linux actually does a fair bit to improve the entire community. -g2boojum- --=20 Grant Goodyear=09 Gentoo Developer g2boojum@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDvqRzptxxUuD2W3YRArfkAJ4tEyJpccWmNYOmzerLcieL9NJAkQCfTj0G gaxMOXISzDeL/1gBQuKLfhs= =laJK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list