[Computerbank] Re: [cai-sa] GNU/FreeBSD progress

[Romana Challans <romana@timelady.com>]

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
>
> Dale.


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!

r:)
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Romana Challans

State Coordinator
Computerbank Australia Incorporated - Sa Branch
http://sa.computerbank.org.au/
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