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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tedux.hobby.nl!mo.hobby.nl!compi.hobby.nl!muts From: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: BSD UNIX In-Reply-To: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu's message of Tue, 31 Aug 1993 18:50:19 GMT References: <newmanCCL33A.GBo@netcom.com> <GOWEN.93Aug30234233@apex.cs.tufts.edu> <1993Aug31.185019.22189@sophia.smith.edu> Sender: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Organization: My unorganized home Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 19:51:47 GMT X-Attribution: PLM Message-ID: <MUTS.93Sep2205147@compi.hobby.nl> Lines: 25 >> On Tue, 31 Aug 1993 18:50:19 GMT, jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J >> Fieber) said: JF> Due to some differences in opinion as to the direction 386bsd JF> should take (useful for everyday use versus OS research) A JF> branch has split off and it is called NetBSD. The improvement JF> of the original release continues and a new base binary release, JF> to be called FreeBSD should be coming out very soon. There is JF> no reliable word on the next release from the Jolitz's. JF> In their infancy, it was easy to point out great strengths and JF> weakneses between Linux and 386bsd but it is becoming much harder JF> now. My general impression at this point is that Linux a wee bit I am puzzled a bit by all the Net/386/Free BSD releases. This is a pity. At the moment I use Linux with very good result, but I 'grew up' with BSD and disliking SYSV. Therefore I would actually rather see a real BSD become the widespread and maybe defeat SYSVR4 in the end. However at the moment Linux has, I think, more coordinated development and therefore has a better defined standard and faster development. I wish the net/386/free BSD community(ies?) could agree more and make their Unix more unified and better. -- _______________________________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands.