On Aug 18, 2014 6:04 AM, "Sia Lang" <silverlanguage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Back in 2007, in his goodbye letter, Phipps assessed that "we're almost there". That's seven years ago, and I unfortunately think his assessment today would be about the same. Even though I am helplessly underskilled I've decided to see what "spontaneous generation"of application compilations in pkgsrc might end up producing. So far 800 so packages but not anything impressive yet. I know I have some Star Trek fonts and a few text browsers. You might call my effort a failure. Say I'm pathetic. I could have watched TV. I can live with that. Because I'm going to make it to the promised land. These guys have done fantastic and I think with a few minor decision changes this operating system would be much further along.