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BSDBSDPosted Oct 20, 2009 1:35 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165)Parent article: Bits from the Debian kernel team
Still no mention on LWN of officially supported Debian GNU/FreeBSD. That
must be one whopper of an article you're all working on. No hurry, get it right. :-)
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BSD Posted Oct 20, 2009 3:57 UTC (Tue) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]
> Still no mention on LWN of officially supported Debian GNU/FreeBSD.
umm, does this count?
http://lwn.net/Articles/329556/
jake
BSD Posted Oct 20, 2009 8:03 UTC (Tue) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]
Good point, and something that always is a bit of a problem when Linux is used as a so broad term instead of free software. As we approach the situation where the kernel - kFreeBSD, Linux, Solaris - is just one interchangeable component like choosing between GNOME and KDE, it becomes a bit of a burden to have "Linux" in the name of so many aspects.
Linux used to be The Revolutionary Thing, but in the end the revolution was really the free/libre software, and Linux is just possibly the brightest star of it.
On the other hand, it's not that huge a problem - there are always situations where the historical name is more of a brand, a memory instead of being a precise term. And the Linux presents a bit more pragmatic brand than the more idealistic free software, though I strongly advocate the latter myself because it's so easy to go to wrong direction in case the idealism is forgotten by too many.
BSD Posted Oct 20, 2009 4:02 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Maybe you'll find that whopper of an article on Gnu Weekly News or FreeBSD Weekly News?
BSD Posted Oct 20, 2009 13:34 UTC (Tue) by Klavs (subscriber, #10563) [Link]
well - AFAIK LWN is no longer Linux Weekly News - it's just LWN - so the news is more about Open Source in general (and as such BSD as well).
FSCWN Posted Oct 20, 2009 15:00 UTC (Tue) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678) [Link]
Yeah... the FAQ says "LWN.net aims to be the premier news and information source for the free software community."
But someone needs to tell Tux that the text he is sitting on in the logo in the upper left ("Linux info from the source") is wrong ;-)
FSCWN Posted Oct 21, 2009 6:55 UTC (Wed) by efexis (guest, #26355) [Link] I'm sure Linux & BSD folk learn a lot from each other, and that that's represented in the code, and where license and politics allow, some cross code use probably also exists. You don't get to be open and pure, that's just another benefit of open source :-)
FSCWN Posted Oct 21, 2009 18:08 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
... or of Free Software, as the case may be.
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