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Old 11th June 2011
Ninguem Ninguem is offline
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P.S. By the way the fundamental problem with Debian/kFreeBSD is licensing as FreeBSD kernel can not be relicensed to GPL even by an infinite stretch of imagination. That is way the project (Debian/kFreeBSD) was dormant for many, many years.
Agreed.

Stallman rejected the idea of using the BSD kernel.

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Thomas Bushnell, the initial Hurd architect, said in hindsight that the decision to start a new kernel rather than adapt the BSD work set the project back considerably, and that the project should have used the BSD kernel for this reason.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html And search for the word social.

The Debian/kFreeBSD is probably what should have been.

On OpenBSD: It's good and stable. I had to drop it from my B&W G3 because GNOME and orca requirements were more than I had available.

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There are definitely many instances in which Linux is more suitable or sometimes the only system that can do the job but apt-get argument is definitely not one of them.
Make and configure are much better because the user has more control over the build- my opinion.

Last edited by Ninguem; 11th June 2011 at 02:36 AM. Reason: Stopped to read.
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