GNU/kFreeBSD -vs- FreeBSD with Linux_base-debain?

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 11:24:50AM -0400, todd wrote:
> kfreebsd_base-debian sounds interesting but I would probably just rather 
> run GNU/kFreeBSD instead.
> 
> I think I'll try to spend some time this weekend and install GNU/kFreeBSD 
> on a second hard drive and do a little performance testing against the 
> debain linux base.
> 
> I've been developing a modified rox desktop setup using color 
> coordination and extending the "drag & drop" functionality to enable 
> things like dragging an .iso to an icon to burn it, and so on.  I have 
> worked on it with FreeBSD exclusively thus far but moving to 
> GNU/kFreeBSD may make some of the desktop applications a bit easier to 
> work with.

There are many desktop applications that still need building/porting. We
have the base libraries for GNOME/KDE already, but didn't bother to build
the GUI yet.

> The ultimate goal is to have a distro(sort of) that will install from a 
> LiveCD. 

We have a LiveCD for the base system. Look at
http://people.debian.org/~rmh/livecd/

-- 
Robert Millan

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