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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!vdlinden From: vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: UN to send troops to BSD warzone Date: 24 Jun 1993 12:47:31 GMT Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam Lines: 34 Message-ID: <20c7p3$bcn@mail.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: xantippe.fwi.uva.nl Summary: War (huh), what is it good for (absolutely nothing) Keywords: religious wars, 386bsd, netbsd Ok guys, all these sub-flame wars are not really interesting. So we have a product here (BSD), and people want to do their own thing with it, especially since 4.4BSD will be the last release. A few decided "Why not make a buck out of it" (BSD/386 from BSDI). Well, I guess we all want to make money. Then there's Bill Jolitz, who wants to continue BSD as a research project, renewing it on the 386 (in the spirit of the original BSD I guess, which introduced new things to Unix). Having seen work that he was part of take a direction that he did not like, he wants to largely be in control of the project (as opposed to Linux, which is more of an "Everybody let's hack' thing (which is working out just fine)). Can't blame him. Also, we have the latest spin-off (the comparison with a soap does come to mind here ;-)) : NetBSD. This one seems to be initiated by people who were not satisfied by the incorporation of patches/additions to 386bsd, and probably had different goals. They seem more interested in taking 386bsd 0.1, and stabilizing & improving it. Fine. I don't really see why this all has to result in wars. Maybe a separate NetBsd group has to be created? Whatever. Personally, I think Bill Jolitz' goal is the most interesting: renewing BSD, taking out some ancient stuff, incorporate new mechanisms. That is why I am interested to see what 386bsd 0.2 (1.0 ?) has to offer. Other people will be interested in other things. That's no reason to start seeing insinuations in every other posted line, is it? Frank -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I am not sure what a .signature is for, but my mom told me to make one. | | Frank van der Linden, vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+