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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!udel!sbcs.sunysb.edu!stark.UUCP!gene From: gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?) Date: 21 Apr 93 08:18:36 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 21 Message-ID: <GENE.93Apr21081836@stark.uucp> References: <1qvpc9$1e8@agate.berkeley.edu> <1r067g$915@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> <CGD.93Apr19235932@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <C5sCvr.3G1@unx.sas.com> <CGD.93Apr20124457@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: stark.uucp In-reply-to: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 20 Apr 93 12:44:57 Arrgggh! OK, I just read this whole thread, and I wasn't upset before but now I am. When the NetBSD 0.8 announcement came out I saw that many of the patchkit people were acknowledged and I thought "Good! The patchkit will follow NetBSD, and probably most of the active kernel hacker community on the net will follow." This made me happy because I agree with the goal of turning 386bsd into a stable system. But now it looks like NetBSD and the patchkit are going to be separate forks. I predict another bifurcation at such time if/when 386bsd 0.2 is released, because if the rumor mill is accurate, it is going to be an experimental system with many changes, and probably moving to that will be a giant step backwards in terms of stability. I think many of the 386bsd users who post here don't want that. I'd just like to send out an appeal for those who have been active in working on 386bsd to rally 'round one version, so that the support doesn't get too diluted. At first I thought NetBSD would be this version, but after reading this thread it looks like I'm going to stay with the patchkit for now. - Gene Stark -- stark@cs.sunysb.edu