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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:27:05
Message-Id: 200601061223.57432@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Friday 06 January 2006 09:37, Duncan wrote:
2 > Well, for that matter, "distribution" is considered at least by my *BSD
3 > friends, to be a peculiarly Linux term.  From their perspective, Linux has
4 > 1001 "distributions", but they only have the one *BSD they choose to use.
5 That's what we started changing. Gentoo/FreeBSD is by all means a FreeBSD
6 distribution (actually, PC-BSD started this a bit before of us).
7 We didn't fork it to change the base system, we use FreeBSD basesystem and
8 portage, so it's not like others BSD.
9
10 --
11 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
12 Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

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