Re: [PLUG] when kswapd goes wild!

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:35:48PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:50:28PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> > A mailing list for the discussion of porting Debian to BSD.
> 
> Okay, this may sound completely dull then, but what's Debian? I
> mean, as extricated from Linux?
> 
> The Debian package system? Is there more?
> 
> All three popular BSDs have a fully functional package system
> which, though it maybe doesn't look quite as pretty on-screen,
> handles dependencies and all just as gracefully as debs do... 
> 
> BSD is not a kernel and a userland waiting for a distribution, but
> a set of three--give or take a few random branches--very similar
> and fully-packaged operating systems.
> 
> I don't mean to discredit this project that I know nothing about
> in any way, I'm just curious what it would comprise should it get
> off the ground.

Excellent questions.  I honestly don't know what this project's goals
are.  If you're interesting in finding out more about it, you can read
the mailing list archives at http://lists.debian.org/ports.html

Walt

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