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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5243 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1068 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!news-rhrz!sfb256!volker From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Subject: Re: A merge of FreeBSD and NetBSD? (Another person's opinion) Sender: news@work1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (News-Admin) Message-ID: <GMT21Sep.93.19567@work1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 13:05:09 GMT References: <haley.747858702@husc8> <kaleb.747863404@kanga.x.org> <33840@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany Lines: 32 In article <33840@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes: >In article <kaleb.747863404@kanga.x.org> kaleb@expo.lcs.mit.edu >(Kaleb Keithley) writes: >>varieties of <xxx>BSD. Or maybe you think the world would be a better place >>if we could go down to the CheChryForVolksRenVolvFiatToyDatHon dealer and >>buy a homogenousmobile? > >[...] Heck, if you want confusion, >look up the NEMA standards for power connectors. Even once you pin >down the voltage and number of phases, there are still half a dozen >varieties to choose from. :-) Ever heard of the Europlug? Buy an appliance in France, plug it in in Denmark, and it will work. I'd like to see a merger, because then all that talent that is now split apart could be used to improve one OS. I want shared libs, DMA support for > 16M, true international keyboards, stable serial I/O, fast ethernet drivers, a Rock Ridge fs driver, etc etc etc etc. Since I have neither the knowledge nor the time to do all of these things by myself, I have to wait until all those kind people out there do it. Having two BSDs means that I have to wait longer. Let's work on the Europlug OS. -- Volker -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 Volker A. Brandt Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de Angewandte Mathematik Phone: +49 228 73 3427 (Bonn, Germany)