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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2030 ; Wed, 24 Feb 93 16:43:45 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: WFJ's talk last night... Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 21:27:17 GMT Message-ID: <C2vCxK.Evp@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <fZDtP0x@quack.sac.ca.us> <C2tFIH.498@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Feb22.071916.14364@netcom.com> Lines: 21 In article <1993Feb22.071916.14364@netcom.com> alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes: > In article <C2tFIH.498@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >I worried that 386BSD 0.2 might... > >> >(3) be incompatible at the kernel level with BSDI. > >There are people who are doing good stuff with the BSDI platform, like > >the Viva File System, and I'd like to be able to play with it. > He _does_ want the 386BSD C library, at least, to be fully Posix > compliant. As for file systems, I am not a kernel programmer, but it > sounds like he is trying to make kernel extensions easier. Yeh, but he's making them *different*. That's gotta hurt cooperative efforts. I'd like to see the existing research platform stabilised to the point where it can be used for research before playing with the documented interfaces. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.