On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 10:51:56PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: : > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : > <snip> : > : > > Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight : > > over the edge. : > : > Uhhmmm why not. So that we can all multiple boot to these OS's ( Linux : > /HURD/FreeBSD/Win32/fooOS) without learning any other packaging systems. : > : > I love OS's! : : Well, FreeBSD is not just as kernel, it's the whole OS, unlike Linux & : Hurd, which are just kernels (the distribution is the OS). You could do it, : but then you could do Debian GNU/Solaris too if you wanted.
True ... I don't iamgine we'll ever see a Debian/GNU FreeBSD, cos that would imply a BSD kernel with GNU utilities and dpkg, dselect, etc ... purists would hate it and it might not be as extensible as a Linux kernel-based system ... although I'm told BSD kernels are superior for firewalling, and the can actually do NAT, whereas Linux does IP-Masq. However, since FreeBSD development is not as "open" as Linux development many would feel stifled in this environment. Then again, someone mentioned Debian FreeBSD, which would be BSD, the Debian packaging/admin tools, and no GNU stuff - the purists would hate that too :) Oh well, back to real work :) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
