Re: integrating Debian GNU/kFreeBSD into InstallingDebianOn?

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 08:58 +0100, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Concerning povray, I had forgotten (or did not realize) that it is non-free. I am aware that there are some licensing issues with the beta version, but did not imagine that the stable version was anything other than open source...

Re: integrating Debian GNU/kFreeBSD into InstallingDebianOn?

2010-03-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:13:53PM +0700, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 08:58 +0100, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Concerning povray, I had forgotten (or did not realize) that it is non-free. I am aware that there are some licensing issues with the beta version, but did not imagine that

Re: integrating Debian GNU/kFreeBSD into InstallingDebianOn?

2010-03-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:25:46AM +0100, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Some applications are simply missing and compile (and run) seemingly without problems from Debian sources. One such example that I have found is povray. Why is this so? povray is in non-free; it is very much possible that there

Re: integrating Debian GNU/kFreeBSD into InstallingDebianOn?

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:25 +0100, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Being optimistic and naively believing that kfreebsd is near to being released for mainstream Debian, I installed kfreebsd-i386 on an older machine that was in need of a complete re-install from scratch. My conclusions for the moment is

Re: integrating Debian GNU/kFreeBSD into InstallingDebianOn?

2010-03-12 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Paul Wise wrote: [Please CC me in reply, not subscribed to either list] With the upcoming Debian squeeze release, the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port will be available in release form. As such, the installation of it on specific machines will be a candidate for documentation in the

integrating Debian GNU/kFreeBSD into InstallingDebianOn?

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, [Please CC me in reply, not subscribed to either list] With the upcoming Debian squeeze release, the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port will be available in release form. As such, the installation of it on specific machines will be a candidate for documentation in the InstallingDebianOn section of