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BSDVault Interviews Rick Collette of EkkoBSD

Posted by michael on from the not-dying dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BSDVault has interviewed Rick Collette of the EkkoBSD project. Among other things they discuss project goals and roadmap for this new distro."

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  1. There's a better word for *BSD Vault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    check into "crypt"

  2. FreeBSD's final Christmas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Outside the frigid tumble-down shack, dry leaves before the wild winter hurricane fly. Here within, at the corner by the cold hearth rests an empty stool. A crutch without a master stands perched against the wall. These forlorn and lonely objects serve as mute reminders of their departed owner, FreeBSD.

    This crutch and vacant stool have become orphans, not unlike the now dead FreeBSD. No longer will FreeBSD hobble about on its cripple's crutch. Like the empty hearth, and the vacant stool, FreeBSD lies cold and still. FreeBSD's corpse, lifeless beneath frozen earth and December snows, will see no more Christmas cheer. No, there will be no Christmas ever again for FreeBSD, for FreeBSD is dead.

    Goodbye, FreeBSD. The pain of life forever stilled, sleep for all eternity in that long winter's nap. Fade gently into Earth's frozen bosom where in dreams even cripples walk and blind men see.

  3. The Cryptkeeper. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I can still here the Cryptkeeper cackling as he pulls out another spider-web-dusted *BSD distro CD from the casket.

    "Hehehehehee!"

  4. BSD may not be dying.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But if the entities who derive benefit from the BSD code trees they take from are unwilling to support it, and are willing to support GNU/Linux instead, the long term doesn't look good.

    As pointed out elsewhere on /. I give you the below.

    Go look here:
    http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/ streami ng/

    Then read the 'binary versions supported' section:
    Mac OS X (Duh!)
    Solaris (Ok)
    Windows (Again, Ok)
    RedHat Linux (Ok)

    Yet no FreeBSD binary.

    That's fine...lets use the source Luke. The Install script is broken for a FreeBSD install because it wants to use /bin/bash as the shell, and when that gets fixed it STILL doesn't install correctly.

    So FreeBSD is good enough for Apple to sync to (or plain old "steal" the code as a GPL zealot would say), but NOT good enough to be bothered to have DarwinStreamingServer supported in ports, a working binary, or even working Install scripts.

    Way to go Apple! Your lack of support for the VERY codebase you take benefit from just shows how the long term prospect for FreeBSD is.