[Savannah-hackers] Re: freakware submission

[Alaska Subedi]

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Adrian Punga wrote:
| It will be a FreeBSD kernel fork and utilities to make it more Linux
| like. The window manager could be a separate project but they will
| both be very integrated meaning that the X windows applications coming
| with the WM will be specific to this FreeBSD fork.
|
|
| On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:58:26 -0400, Alaska Subedi <address@hidden>
wrote:
|
|>Hi,
|>
|>Apologies for the delay in reviewing your submission.
|>
|>
|>>Project Admins:
|>>Adrian Punga <address@hidden>
|>>
|>>Registration Date:
|>>Sun 09/26/2004 at 12:50
|>>
|>>System Group Name:
|>>freakware
|>>
|>>Submitted Description:
|>>The Freackware project is aiming to modify a BSD operating system so
|>>that it could be accessible to Linux users. The main purpose is to
|>>convert FreeBSD so that it looks like a Linux (device names, commands,
|>>file system structure) The second purpose is to make this BSD as easy
|>>to use as possible. Another target is to let the user chose either to
|>>start with a BSD kernel or a Linux kernel and that in the same
|>>filesystem. The basic idea is that BSD & Linux should go together and
|>>as closely as possible. The last purpose is to create a window manager
|>>based on GTK toolkit that will be a standard for this hibryd
|>>system. The name of the project is based on the formula: FREebsd +
|>>slACKWARE = FREAKWARE and that's because from all the linux distros I
|>>respect most the Slackware one and from the BSDs I consider FreeBSD is
|>>the most usefull at the moment. THERE ARE NO FILES AVAILABLE AT THE
|>>MOMENT.
|>>
|>>Required software:
|>>
|>>Other comments:
|>>
|>>Group Type: GNU
|>>
|>>License: GNU General Public License V2 or later
|>>
|>
|>Could you please clarify if you are trying to put some fork of FreeBSD
|>kernel or the whole OS itself? Since, we have limited bandwith and
|>storage, we do not host full operating systems or any distribution.
|>Also, due to this policy, you will have to separate your project to
|>create a window manager based on GTK toolkit.
|>
|>Thanks,
|>Alaska Subedi
|>
|>
|
|

Hi,

I have approved your project for inclusion in Savannah. Please use this
project's account only for maintaining/modifying the FreeBSD kernel fork
and register other projects for the utilities and the window manager.
This would save a lot in managing Savannah.

Regards,

Alaska Subedi
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