Re: [gsoc2009] debian-installer on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
Luca Favatella dijo [Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:57:22PM +0100]: > (I don't know if I have to cc other Debian mailing lists) Probably debian-boot would be the one - I am adding a Cc: to this mail, and quoting it fully. Debian-boot is [1] for «Developing the installation system - Discussion and maintenance of the Debian installation system» > I would like to partecipate as a student in Google Summer of Code 2009. > > I'm interested in working on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. > > I propose the project "Porting debian-installer on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD". > I'm not able to complete this task alone. > I need someone splitting this task in smaller subtasks to complete. > > Do you think this project is a good idea? > Is there someone wanting to mentor me? Please note I'm mostly a mildly-informed-newbie, both in FreeBSD and in d-i topics. Still, I've played with both. Your goal is very interesting and I can only hope for you to pursue and succeed in it - And do it in a generic way, which would allow for easily adapting to any other kernel. Still, from what I have seen, d-i uses throughout the system many Linux-specific constructs (I'm mostly looking at udev), and many d-i components assume Linux structures (i.e. setting up partitions with LVM, using GRUB or LILO as the bootloader, the supported filesystems, etc.) Still, if you are willing to dive deep into it... I know it will help greatly our project's support for other OSs. I don't think it's probable that -at least in early stages- you will get commit access to the d-i repository, and you won't want to be stuck in an old version (but that's easily fixable by many techniques). In any case, I cannot mentor you, but if you want somebody cheering along, count me in :) [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/ -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: GNU within the name (Was: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s))
Julian Mehnle dijo [Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:56:15PM +0100]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If we ever get a replacement libc that would really work as > > replacement... on such system GNU claims would become much weaker. Not > > that there was a serious chance of that happening - drop-in replacement > > of glibc on Linux would be a lot of work and so far none of the > > alternative libc projects had tried to pull that off. > > Why would anyone want to replace GLIBC in the first place? To get rid of > "GNU" in "GNU/Linux"? Maintainability? Many people (not me, I would lack that level of technical skills) have pointed out that glibc's code is a mess. Ability to distribute under another license? Yes, it might not be a priority in Debian (we are, after all, pro-GPL), but many people would like having a BSD-style libc for Linux... ...Or the good ol' 'Because it's there' stuff? :) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF
Re: *BSD and GNU/*BSD nomenclature (was: Re: X Strike Force SVN commit: rev 183 - in branches/4.3.0/sid/debian: . patches)
Joel Baker dijo [Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:08:42AM -0600]: > (...) > That's the situation with the NetBSD port as it stands. I'm happy to > discuss whether it should be "Debian GNU/NetBSD/i386" or simply "Debian > NetBSD/i386", but if we're going to dredge this up again, I'm going to have > to insist on someone providing actual citations, rather than assertions > (well, okay, RMS or FSF folks could assert it, since that's what the > citations would be to...) I think in this case labeling our NetBSD port as GNU/NetBSD would not only be out of respect for RMS's wishes - it can help clarify what exactly are we doing. Calling it just 'Debian NetBSD' will bring us lots of people asking us what difference does it have from 'just NetBSD'. Calling it 'Debian GNU/NetBSD' will, IMHO, tell at least part of them what is this about. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF pgpziPwO5uIKq.pgp Description: PGP signature
