Gentoo and FreeBSD

[Garrett Cooper]

On Oct 15, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Tom Norris wrote:

> Sean wrote:
>
>> Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD  
>> operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term  
>> goal of the Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any  
>> combination of *BSD or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD  
>> or GNU userland tools.
>>
>
>
> I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :(
> Oh well, I'm going try to not to be a jerk until I at least *try*  
> their product.

     I do like how their compiling and feature management works, ie  
portage as opposed to ports (it's done through stability/arch masks  
and feature 'compile flags'), but it still isn't 100% kosher and  
doesn't work all the time even in native Gentoo Linux.
-Garrett