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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!gmd.de!mururoa!veit From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?) Message-ID: <1993May4.080502.2177@gmd.de> Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit) Nntp-Posting-Host: mururoa Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany 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> <GENE.93Apr21081836@stark.uucp> <1993Apr21.193218.5724@cs.few.eur.nl> <GENE.93A <2109@hcshh.hcs.de> <1993May3.212633.1057@knobel.GUN.de> Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 08:05:02 GMT Lines: 52 In article <1993May3.212633.1057@knobel.GUN.de>, andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) writes: |> In <2109@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes: |> |> |In <GENE.93Apr22075109@stark.uucp> gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark (Gene Stark) writes: |> |> |Proposal: - merge 0.1.5 and NetBSD into "one" NetBSD. |> | - provide a patchkit which will people allow to move |> | from 0.1 + pk to NetBSD |> | - stop any support for 386BSD 0.1 |> |> That would be the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |> |> o Let the NetBSD people integrate the latest stuff from the patchkit |> into NetBSD. |> o Then let's work together as supposed by Nate Williams |> (one of his plans for 386BSD 0.1.5) on upgrading |> every utility to the latest patchlevel. |> o Finally release an unique BSD ==> NetBSD 0.9 |> |> Now I'd like to ask the NetBSD's and 386BSD's authorities ... |> |> Would it be possible to merge 386bsd 0.1.5 and NetBSD 0.8 |> to a single improved NetBSD 0.9 ?????? This is an illusion. 386bsd and the upcoming NetBSD have different goals. NetBSD wants to become a PD UNIX like Linux, and will sooner or later include things (like code under GPL) which makes it uninteresting for commercial organisations. The 386bsd won't adopt GPL-restricted code for reasons that have been discussed for a long time. Whether or not 0.1.5 will ever exist or whether the NetBSD people will integrate parts of the patchkit or code from future 386bsd-0.2 is irrelevant; the diverging of NetBSD-X.Y and 386bsd-A.B won't go away any more unless one of them will die out which is something I doubt will happen. Holger |> |> |> Andreas |> -- |> ////// Andreas Klemm \\\\\\ /////// andreas@knobel.GUN.de \\\\\\\ |> private : +49 2137 12609 D-4040 Neuss 21 (Norf), Germany |> at work : +49 2173 3964 161 Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH |> Telefax : +49 2173 3964 222 Abteilung Unix Support, D-4019 Monheim -- Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: Holger.Veit@gmd.de | | / GMD-SET German National Research | Phone: (+49) 2241 14 2448 |__| / Center for Computer Science | Fax: (+49) 2241 14 2342 | | / P.O. Box 13 16 | Three lines Signature space | |/ Schloss Birlinghoven | available for rent. Nearly DW-5205 St. Augustin, Germany | unused, good conditions