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From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?)
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 14:14:14 GMT
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In article <CGD.93Apr19235932@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>In article <1r067g$915@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) writes:
>>Does NetBSD fix silo overflows?
>
>a slightly better question would be:
>does it fix the serial driver.
>
>the answer to that is: right now, it's the stock
>serial driver plus patches.
>
>incorporation of Bruce Evans' interrupt, NPX, and
>serial driver code will probably happen
>by the first few source diff releases, i.e. probably
>within a month or so.
>
>
>
>
>chris
>--
>Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
>
> "386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
> find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass
Well, while I applaud the effort generalizing 386BSD to NetBSD, and
(hopefully) having it stay relatively close to whatever becomes
of BSD (not necessarilly the newest, most nifty-keen operating system
ideas that someone thought of last night - but not the drudgey old
Sys V 3.2 stuff...) - I'm now very confused. I really like the idea
of divorcing from 386bsd; for all the reasons mentioned in the NetBSD
announcement, but just don't know where to go from here.
We now have at the moment; "another" 386BSD. Should I abandon
my current sources and switch to NetBSD? Will the patchkit, etc...
be moved from 386bsd to NetBSD - what is to be done?
We probably should reach a consensus about how our collective support
is to be applied. Personally, I would like to go with NetBSD, as that
offers a set of goals which more closely matches my own.
Thus, I suggest we begin generating patch sets against that, and
encourage everyone to move over to NetBSD.
What do you think?
- Uncertain and confused -
- Dave Rivers -
(sastdr@unx.sas.com (work))
(rivers@ponds.uucp (home))
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