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1.  Project Description

An effort to provide the complete Gentoo/Linux facilities on BSD operating systems, allowing users to use their knowledege of Gentoo's services and utilites with BSD userlands and kernels.

This project is still in its infancy. If you are interested in working on it, please send an e-mail to the Gentoo/*BSD team.

2.  Developers

Developer Nickname Role
Peter Weller welp Lead
Timothy Redaelli drizzt Lead ( Deputy lead )
Members from subproject obsd
Benigno Batista Júnior bbj Member
Members from subproject fbsd
Roy Marples uberlord Lead
Timothy Redaelli drizzt Lead ( Deputy lead )
Joe Peterson lavajoe Member
Javier Villavicencio the_paya Member
Alexis Ballier aballier Member
Stephen Klimaszewski steev Member ( GNOME portability )
Peter Weller welp Member
Members from subproject nbsd
Benigno Batista Júnior bbj Member
Harald van Dijk truedfx Member

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

3.  Subprojects

The bsd project has the following subprojects:

Project Lead Description
obsd A Gentoo system based on OpenBSD
fbsd Roy Marples FreeBSD-based Gentoo system
nbsd A Gentoo system based on NetBSD

4.  Planned subprojects

The bsd project has the following subprojects planned:

Project Description
dfly This is a (still unofficial) port of Gentoo under DragonFly BSD system. Quite near to Gentoo/FreeBSD, this port will share many part of the current implementation. Developed by Robert Sebastian Gerus (arachnist).

5.  Resources

Resources offered by the bsd project are:

6.  Herds

The bsd project maintains the following herds:

Herd Members Description
bsd drizzt, welp Support for *BSD system packages, and *BSD derived packages.

7.  Gentoo/*BSD contacts

Ways to contact Gentoo/*BSD developers include the IRC Channel #gentoo-bsd on Freenode, as well as the mailing list gentoo-bsd@gentoo.org. To subscribe just send an empty email to gentoo-bsd-subscribe@gentoo.org and follow the instructions included in the reply.



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Updated October 19, 2006

Summary: Porting of Gentoo facilities on BSD systems

Grant Goodyear
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Diego Pettenò
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