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Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD 0.9, wait? [was: Re: from 386bsd0.1 to FreeBSD
Message-ID: <1993Sep14.130448.1258@cm.cf.ac.uk>
From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 13:04:47 +0000
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References: <hastyCD8A1E.9AA@netcom.com> <1993Sep13.121342.3732@cm.cf.ac.uk> <hastyCDAz16.5M7@netcom.com>
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In article <hastyCDAz16.5M7@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>First off, many thanks to the FreeBSD and NetBSD teams for all their
>efforts we are evolving and coming along very well.
>
>In article <1993Sep13.121342.3732@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes:
>>
>>I believe that we will merge and somewhat sooner than in 6 months time. It
>>may be 6 months before the first merged release appears but that's because
>>there are a large number of issues to be resolved.
>>
>
>
>Care to elaborate or at least list the issues?
>

Not really :-)

However, there are quite a few differences in the actual code. Just
mergeing the two source trees will take considerable time but before
we even start on that we have to merge the two teams and that
inevitably involves some politics.

-- 
  Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff

  Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk
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