wrong OS name detection for GNU variants

Robert Millan zeratul2 at wanadoo.es
Tue Oct 21 22:32:36 CEST 2003


> On Tue, 2003-10-21 14:51:43 +0200, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
> wrote in message <87ismipxcw.fsf at alberti.g10code.de>:
> 
> > BTW, is there a BSD kernel based GNU system one can actually use now?
> 
> Um, people are working on it, slowly... Maybe the Debian people will get
> it to fully work at some time...

Our GNU/KFreeBSD port is self-hosting and actualy usable for development
purposes. It can boot standalone and has relevant stuff like Xfree86 available.

For details, have a look at:

  http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/gnu-libc-based

We're looking for contributors. If you're interested, just pop up in the
glibc-bsd list and say hello.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

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