FreeBSD

[Mike Newman]

Allow me to push this a little further:
is Mac OS X kosher?

I am thinking of buying an iBook. They're durable, they Just Work
(TM), they look good, and they run Unix. Certainly nobody would be
offened if I brought one to a meeting for my own use. I don't think
anyone would mind if I wrote asking for help with a Bash or Python
script that I'd written, or if I was confused by some facet of GCC, or
was having trouble configuring Apache (Unix is Unix is Unix).

I haven't been here for very long but I don't think there would be
much difference if this was TGLUG (for GNU/Linux) or TGUG (just GNU)
or TFUUG (free Unices?) or even TBUG (*BSD). I mean, Linux (the
kernel) is awesome but you can't talk about it all day (LKML exists
for a reason, right?)


On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:19:42 -0500, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org <cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > SlackRat wrote:
> > > Is FreeBSD kosher here please?
> >
> > About as kosher as a ham & cheese sandwich.  ;-)
> 
> I'd wonder why.
> 
> The vast majority of the software included with the FreeBSD kernel is
> the very same free software that is commonly included with the Linux
> kernel.
> 
> The "impertinant" questions would be those relating to either the kernel
> or to the specifics of how *BSD packaging works.  The vast majority of
> questions that hit the list aren't about the Linux equivalents to those
> things.  When the questions _are_ related to software, they more often
> than not relate to software that is no more "part of Linux" than it is
> "part of FreeBSD."
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