i had a tought

[till plewe]

On 4/23/09, Gary Gatten <Ggatten at waddell.com> wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry
> McAllister
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:42 PM
> To: Arjen Simon Scheer
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: i had a tought
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:10:04PM +0200, Arjen Simon Scheer wrote:
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>> why there is not a lunix operatingsystem consortium, for the kernel
> end
>> the commercial userinterface????
>
> Good question.
> Maybe you should ask them.
>
> Probably few people on this list will know because it is not a Lunix
> Email list.   It is a group of FreeBSD users and FreeBSD is an operating
> system.  It is a BSD UNIX type of operating system.    Although it
> covers
> some similar territory as Lunix, it is not Lunix nor a flavor of it.
>
> So, if you can find a friendly group of Lunix developers, then you
> can ask them your question.   Probably they will know more.
>
> As for FreeBSD, it does have a foundation - the FreeBSD foundation
> and a consortium made up of committers which is lead by a core
> group elected every two years.   (something like that, I may be off
> on the election cycle details)
>
> On the other hand, you can just stick with FreeBSD and not bother
> with the Lunix stuff and you will get along just fine.
>
> ////jerry
>
>
>
> LMAO!  Touche!  So, are you saying I shouldn't ask any questions here
> about Ubuntu, Suse, RedHat, et al?  Isn't Lunix better than BSD anyway?
> ;-)
>

To be allowed to ask questions about Ubuntu you first have to come up with a
clever name like wily wombat, for Suse you need a hotmail.com address.
I don't know anything about RedHat and etal.
You could ask questions about Debian. But they are switching to FreeBSD
anyway (the kernel switch is complete and userland is to follow shortly).