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View Poll Results: Would you like to see BSD bundled with a full suite of 3rd party programs? | |||
Yes | 0 | 0% | |
No | 11 | 73.33% | |
Gag me with a spoon | 4 | 26.67% | |
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@Trihex: You first post was vague to me but the underlying question was interesting. 3rd party already exists in the various BSD's bases, at different level and are sometime being progressively expelled from the base (GPL licence code from OBSD). Your second post (that I also read or else I wouldn't have answered it...) sounded to me like "Who wants F/OBSD install media with Desktop suite similar to Debian 8 Live?" and that brings the answer "already done: PC-BSD/TrueOS". Xenocara is not 3rd party because it's fully part of the OBSD project. GCC on the other hand is an example of 3rd party software in base. |
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I thought xenocara was 3rd party software in base:
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I thought it missed it by a mile, beings as the poll question was 'Would you like to see BSD bundled with a full suite of 3rd party programs?", and had a possible response of "Yes", No', or "Gag me with a spoon". Not "Why can't BSD be bundled with a full suite of 3rd party programs?" and why it couldn't be. But I am so tried of online arguments I could choose option 3 and didn't bother to point that out before. |
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"Would you like to see ...?" "Yes, but it is not possible, because ..." If that is not true someone would respond with "No, it could be done." What is the problem? This is not a serious technical thread. It is about a hypothetical/fantasy question. |
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You seem somewhat perturbed that some posters missed the intent/point of your thread? (even when the point/intent was never clear in the first place and very much open to interpretation).
Funkygoby's/rons' points regarding licensing are also valid and ontopic. |
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I don't understand this thread at all.
I for one would welcome an outside effort to provide a siteXX.tgz that would set up one of the big three DMs (Gnome/KDE/Xfce) and a bunch of other "expected" applications: LibreOffice, VLC, Gimp, git, python, go, a bunch of games, etc. and some config file tweaks to make it all nice and "just work." Sure, it'd end up with a smorgasbord of licenses, GPL included, but since it's not part of the base system, who cares? It's not contaminating anything. And the user would have to go out of their way to intentionally install it. Or, you can roll your own for your own private installs and have it all set up for you at install time. Oh, and having clean cvs checkouts of the src, ports, and xenocara trees so new users can get started right away writing patches would be a positive. But really, having a signified siteXX.tgz that a user can download and run Code:
doas tar xvzfp -C / siteXX.tgz As long as it doesn't take away from developer resources, I don't see the problem here at all. The main downside would be tracking -current, but that's where new ports get developed so that's the way it is. |
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I don't think that was ever an issue? Anyone who wants to create and distribute their own siteXX.tgz can do so (I actually think that's a great idea and a very eloquent way of providing a "ready to go" customised install).
Oh well, that's web forums for you (and ambiguity)... |
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