On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:30:14PM +0930, Romana Challans wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:10 am, Dale Long wrote: > > Maybe we can use this: :-) > > > > "The Debian GNU/FreeBSD port has recently made significant progress > > using the GNU C library <http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc/> as a base > > instead of FreeBSD's libc. The result has been a great improvement in > > portability, which allowed a single developer to bootstrap Debian to the > > point of having a working xfree86 > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2003/debian-bsd-200306/msg00001.html> > > package in matter of a few weeks. There's currently a base GNU/FreeBSD > > tarball <http://people.debian.org/%7Ermh/gnu-freebsd/pub/> that can be > > installed as a standalone system, an APT repository > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2003/debian-bsd-200306/msg00004.html> > > and a temporary website <http://people.debian.org/%7Ermh/gnu-freebsd/> > > summarizing the current status of the port." > > > > It should keep all of the people happy most of the time. :-) > > > > http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=968 > > > I dont know whether to rejoice or run screaming from frankenstein's > monster!!!!!! > > looking forward to having a play at some point though.....in the fullness of > time;) > > many thanks for that one dale, i had no idea such a *ummm* thing existed! It's just the BSD kernel, with the standard GNU tools. It's not quite ready for primetime yet (I'm still working with Robert to fix XFree86, and it has a few interesting bugs), and probably won't be as well as supported as Debian's GNU/Linux. I recommend just running with Linux, as GNU/FreeBSD isn't quite yet ready for primetime, and there's no reason to switch, really. Also, Linux tends to have better support for new/esoteric hardware. -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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