Re: [gentoo-bsd] Daemon News Article

[David Stanford]

Diego,

Thank you very much for the response. I already have a few questions of my
own, but wanted to see if the DN team had any more before I ask mine so I
can get them to you all at once. Would you be willing to conduct a brief
interview via email once I have rounded up some formalized questions? What I
would like to do is start the article with an introduction (some background
information) of the project(s), focusing mainly on Gentoo/FreeBSD since it
seems to be the furthest along, and them go into an interview. Also, I don't
think many Gentoo/BSD users are aware of the project, so I think it would be
important to touch on where it came from, how it evolved, and where it's
going. If you would be kind enough to get some brief information on this
from the other developers it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again!

-David

On 3/21/06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm one of the developers of Gentoo/*BSD, in particulare I take care of
> the
> Gentoo/FreeBSD project since last year.
> Other than me, the (active) Gentoo/*BSD team is composed by Stephen Bennet
> (spb), Michael Kohl (who handles user-level documentation), Karol
> Pasternak
> (lead of Gentoo/OpenBSD), Damian Florczyk (lead of Gentoo/NetBSD) and
> Benigno
> B. Junior, our latest recruit, who joined the project just yesterday.
>
> The aim is to have a working system that uses the original kernel, system
> library and userland of FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD (depending on the
> project
> of course) using Gentoo's proper package management, init system and some
> of
> the administration facilities.
>
> Currently the work is spread between these three subprojects, but as
> Gentoo/FreeBSD had a more constant effort spent on it in the past it's
> currently the most advanced of them, at least in terms of baselayout and
> of
> alignment with Gentoo Linux.
>
> Currently the work is more or less focused in providing a working harness
> so
> that all the Gentoo/*BSD ports shares as much as possible with the
> original
> Gentoo Linux (talking about package management, init system and day-to-day
> administration facilities), without having to modify heavily the original
> sources.
>
> For Gentoo/FreeBSD and Gentoo/OpenBSD there are already working stages
> that
> can be used by users to test the status of the projects, Gentoo/NetBSD has
> something too but it's currently in a fluid state that makes difficult to
> release a snapshot of it.
>
> The work to be done is quite a lot anyway, gcc, binutils and in general
> the
> toolchain needs polishing, especially for OpenBSD, as many changes done by
> the BSD projects are not sent to the upstream developers. Also the sources
> are mostly wrote for older versions of gcc and binutils (and flex for what
> involves FreeBSD), plus there are things that might need to be mitigated
> to
> find a compromise between the upstream BSD way and the Gentoo way of
> handling
> some things.
>
> I tried to cover what it's currently available and known about the
> project,
> although I might have forgot something that might be obvious for me but
> not
> that obvious for anyone else :)
>
> If you want further details, feel free to contact me, but for some things
> (like the origin of the project), I'd have to rely the question to other
> developers that were here before I was.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
> Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
>
>
>