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 1EutNM-00029p-8R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:19:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k06FImjT017085; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:18:48 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 k06FG2DS027218 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:16:03 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EutJy-0006e7-7e for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:16:02 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EutJw-0000P0-2N for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:16:00 +0100 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:16:00 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:16:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:15:42 -0700 Organization: Organization? Only haphazardly. Message-ID: 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k06FIml7017085 X-Archives-Salt: d9dafbb6-1801-42d0-97ed-f2745e656dc4 X-Archives-Hash: 3847ef7fcdf4b0da76f1ba87d9a5a1cb Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=F2 posted <200601061223.57432@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org>, excerpted below,= =20 on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:23:52 +0100: > On Friday 06 January 2006 09:37, Duncan wrote: >> Well, for that matter, "distribution" is considered at least by my *BS= D >> friends, to be a peculiarly Linux term. =A0From their perspective, Lin= ux has >> 1001 "distributions", but they only have the one *BSD they choose to u= se. > That's what we started changing. Gentoo/FreeBSD is by all means a FreeB= SD=20 > distribution (actually, PC-BSD started this a bit before of us). > We didn't fork it to change the base system, we use FreeBSD basesystem = and=20 > portage, so it's not like others BSD. And I definitely wish you well in your G/FBSD efforts, but when I mentioned them on my local ISP's unix (*ix) group, the FBSD groupies reaction was "Yuck!" 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. (If you like and don't consider this topical for the list or thread, mail me. If I have the question, however, it's possible others do as well, and just haven't asked, so maybe it is worth keeping to the list.=20 Whatever. /I'm/ interested, anyway.) TIA --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list