'Ports' for all

http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net//ports/pseudo/

This might be what you're talking about. I'm fairly new at FreeBSD. I'll
like to see if there was a different group (or SIG) for *BSD in the valley.

Cheers, Kirt

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W. Kirt Karl
Information Technology
Arizona State University
(480) 965 - 3599
k.karl@asu.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gontran [mailto:gontran@gontran.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 8:01 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: 'Ports' for all
>
>
> Question:
> --------
> JLF was talking about something called 'open-ports' a new
> project to bring the BSD ports system to other NIX platforms. Is there
> a URL or a place to read more about it?
>
> Search on google turned up all the wrong goodies, and
> sourceforge doesn't
> seem to have an entry that I can find.
>
> Giddy Excitement:
> -----------------
> There is a pre 1.0 gnu/linux distro called 'Gentoo Linux'
> (http://www.gentoo.org) that offers an attempt (first?) at a
> ports collection
> for linux.
>
> It works great.
>
> Really, this is not an overstatement. Having used, and
> loved, ports on
> OpenBSD, I can say it's comparable.
>
> It really is grand. I heartily recommend it.
>
> Also if you're interested in developing and potentially
> playing a key role
> in an up and coming distro, CVS access is just a few well
> done contributions
> away.
>
> Cheers,
> Gontran
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