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On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:48:39 , Standa Opichal <opichals@seznam.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi Paul!
>
> I know it is probably not the thing what most people here would want
> to hear but IMO
> it would be less time consuming to port FreeMiNT/TOS APIs, VDI and AES
> on top of the
> current NetBSD/FreeBSD codebase then trying to implement the necessary
> functionality
> into the FreeMiNT kernel itself. We could nicely call it e.g.
> Mint(Free¦Net)BSD! :)
>
> There you get all the apps bundled.... m68k specific patches could
> still be applied from
> their SpareMiNT RPMs. And you might even get cross-compile capable
> packaging
> system.
>
> But that's probably way off the discussion here. I am just trying to
> put man-years quote
> on the work to be done to reach the goal...
>
> Standa
>

I made a similar suggestion a year or so ago. Mint was based on
BSD orignally so would it be possibe to take a newer BSD and
make the same sort of changes ?

Peter