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From: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?)
Date: 20 Apr 93 12:56:41
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: nate@cs.montana.edu's message of Tue, 20 Apr 1993 19:12:41 GMT
In article <1993Apr20.191241.16618@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
=>One, the amount of changes from 386BSD + patchkit -> NetBSD are
=>extremely large, especially in the area of configuration.
this is true.
=>The goals for the NetBSD group and the continuing 386BSD group are different.
this too, is true.
=>If I am not mistaken, (Chris, contradict me if I'm wrong), the NetBSD
=>crew have no intention on running 0.2. However, this doesn't mean they
=>will ignore 0.2, but instead take what they consider to be useful
=>features from it (if possible), and place them into NetBSD.
(give nate a cookie for nice statement... 8-)
that's correct.
=>No, NetBSD and 386BSD are still different. Chris and his support crew have
=>done a lot of VERY GOOD THINGS in NetBSD (and some things on which I disagree
=>with, but that's to be expected. :-)
thanks.
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