Re: Pkg-based base system.

From: Colin Percival <colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:57:19 +0000
At 04:43 17/03/2004, Scott Long wrote:
 >FreeBSD is an operating
>system.  It is not a kernel with interchangeable userland pieces.

   Nor, I think, do many users want a kernel with interchangeable
userland pieces.  What I hear from many users, however, is that
they would like an operating system with optional pieces -- so
that they could sysinstall FreeBSD without sendmail, named, or
doscmd (to take a random example).

Colin Percival
Received on Tue Mar 16 2004 - 21:57:22 UTC

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