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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5075 comp.os.386bsd.misc:992 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: from 386bsd0.1 to FreeBSD or NetBSD 0.9 Date: 13 Sep 1993 19:38:58 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 42 Message-ID: <272i8i$b6r@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CD190K.FwG@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <CD7rGD.2p3@taronga.com> <JKH.93Sep12051458@whisker.lotus.ie> <1993Sep13.172908.18004@prepress.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: schizo.coe.montana.edu In article <1993Sep13.172908.18004@prepress.com>, Bob Costa <costa@benton.prepress.com> wrote: > >So why did these separate groups form in the first place? > >What would cause someone to decide to go their own way and not contribute >to an "already established" group? Are the co-ordinators of these >"already established" groups pig-headed? Do they refuse to listen when >advise is given? Or are the people giving the advise pushy and demaning >and thefore go their own way? The groups didn't split off from a main group if that's what you mean. To summarize (again). 386bsd 0.1 comes along. A group of people start working on a patchkit, to fix some of the problems. In that same time period, for reasons that the NetBSD group should explain, NetBSD was formed. I think part of it was unhappiness with 386bsd (which was a disaster), a lack of participation from the developer, and a different vision for what a free PC based unix should become. So NetBSD is off doing it's thing. Meanwhile, the patchkit people are still working on 386bsd, and decided to create an "interim" release of 386bsd, as WFJ was taking an incredible amount of time to get 0.2 out. Eventually, the interim group reached its limit wrt wfj, and how things were proceeding, and decided to put their interim effort out as FreeBSD. So FreeBSD is not a group of people that got together, and decided that NetBSD wasn't good enough and wanted to do their own thing, they're two separate evolving groups. There has been talk of merging between NetBSD and FreeBSD, but I'm not sure it will happen, there's some strong personalities that make it difficult to see how working together would work. -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu