Gentoo and FreeBSD

[Sean]

I came across the Gentoo/FreeBSD project at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-freebsd.xml

A description states
What is Gentoo/FreeBSD?

Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD operating
system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term goal of the
Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any combination of *BSD
or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD or GNU userland tools.

What exactly does this gain a user?
Use of both Linux and FreeBSD fully, partially, some sort of mutant
creature?

FreeBSD is a complete from top to bottom, so again, what does this combo
do for a user?
Would this gain something else instead of having linux support enabled?

Thanks
Sean

[Tom Norris]

Post by Sean
Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD operating
system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term goal of the
Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any combination of *BSD
or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD or GNU userland tools.

I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :(
Oh well, I'm going try to not to be a jerk until I at least *try* their
product.

[Garrett Cooper]

Post by Tom Norris

Post by Sean
Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD
operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term
goal of the Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any
combination of *BSD or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD
or GNU userland tools.

I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :(
Oh well, I'm going try to not to be a jerk until I at least *try*
their product.

I do like how their compiling and feature management works, ie
portage as opposed to ports (it's done through stability/arch masks
and feature 'compile flags'), but it still isn't 100% kosher and
doesn't work all the time even in native Gentoo Linux.
-Garrett

[Andrew P.]

Post by Garrett Cooper

Post by Tom Norris

Post by Sean
Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD
operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term
goal of the Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any
combination of *BSD or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD
or GNU userland tools.

I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :(
Oh well, I'm going try to not to be a jerk until I at least *try*
their product.

I do like how their compiling and feature management works, ie
portage as opposed to ports (it's done through stability/arch masks
and feature 'compile flags'), but it still isn't 100% kosher and
doesn't work all the time even in native Gentoo Linux.
-Garrett
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The original idea belongs to the Debian project. See
here:

http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

Such projects help us (in theory, at least) improve
the linux compatibility layer.

[Giorgos Keramidas]

Post by Garrett Cooper

Post by Sean
Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD
operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term
goal of the Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any
combination of *BSD or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD or
GNU userland tools.

I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :( Oh well,
I'm going try to not to be a jerk until I at least *try* their
product.

I do like how their compiling and feature management works, ie
portage as opposed to ports (it's done through stability/arch masks
and feature 'compile flags'), but it still isn't 100% kosher and
doesn't work all the time even in native Gentoo Linux.

I can only wish them "good luck", in all honesty :)

[Kris Kennaway]

Post by Sean
I came across the Gentoo/FreeBSD project at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-freebsd.xml
A description states
What is Gentoo/FreeBSD?
Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD operating
system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term goal of the
Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any combination of *BSD
or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD or GNU userland tools.
What exactly does this gain a user?
Use of both Linux and FreeBSD fully, partially, some sort of mutant
creature?
FreeBSD is a complete from top to bottom, so again, what does this combo
do for a user?

You'd have to ask them, they have nothing to do with the freebsd project.

Kris

Post by Sean
Would this gain something else instead of having linux support enabled?
Thanks
Sean
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[Graham Bentley]

Post by Tom Norris
I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :(

Mmm, that chaos seems to have gotten stallman et alii a long
way ...

[Giorgos Keramidas]

Post by Graham Bentley

Post by Tom Norris
I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :(

Mmm, that chaos seems to have gotten stallman et alii a long
way ...

There's another "chaos" that seems to be more popular: Windows.
So what?

[ Majorities aren't always right ;-) ]