FreeBSD Ports for GNU/Linux

Posted by michael on Friday September 21, 2001 @06:20AM from the thirty-two-tetris-variants-and-counting dept.

proclus writes: "GNU-Darwin has provided a special FreeBSD ports tarball (20 Mb) for GNU/Linux users. We have modified the FreeBSD Ports System to bring thousands of free software offerings within the reach of every GNU/Linux user. The system is not fully automated yet, but you can untar it in your home directory and try it. Just follow these directions. This system provides full access to the FreeBSD ports, so that users can compile and install software in their home directories. Root access is not required."

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MacOSX? by Sanity · 2001-09-21 09:42 · Score: 1, Troll

I don't see why you consider MacOSX to be worthy of our support. Apple has historically demonstrated a willingness to lock people in to proprietary hardware and software that makes Microsoft look positively reserved. Just because they have largely failed in this regard, should not earn them any respect. Yes, they have built OSX on-top of an Open Source platform, but OSX remains closed-source.

I don't think "not being Microsoft" is a sufficient criteria for the support of the Open Source community.