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Re: [ossig] Enterprise Linux: UserLinux, Debian
On Aug 20, 2004, at 11:46 AM, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> On 19/08/2004 22:57 Colin Charles said the following:
>> Then, what about FreeBSD spin-off's? Recently, there's this DragonFly
>> BSD thing. Do we see commercial spin-off's for BSD based distros?
>> Again, I'm curious to know, no religious wars please
>
> errm, i fail so see how *BSD is relevant to a discussion which at the
> root of it is based on the package update/install mechanisms of
> linux-based OSes. dragonflybsd is a fork of freebsd 4.8 when matt
> dillon
> had a disagreement with freebsd core and chose to continue the 4-stable
> line in a new operating system. they've just released 1.0-alpha.
>
Hmmm, perhaps we should include port collection discussion as well, see
if that is possible in Linux?
Seriously though, it would be nice if all Unix-like OSes uses the same
package install mechanism and make it a standard but it would probably
be too difficult.
> and in case you need further reminding:, commercial spin-offs of *bsd:
> mac os x, juniper's junos, sunos/solaris (pre OSS BSDs), wasabi
> systems.
>
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