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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1368 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6470 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: WILL ???BSD DIE? Date: 4 Nov 1993 05:51:29 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 37 Message-ID: <2ba591$e4v@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <jmonroyCFv39C.Iv1@netcom.com> <2b6i6f$t2u@pith.uoregon.edu> <2b6phn$q5m@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <2b6phn$q5m@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: >>I will be sorry to see 386BSD go. The departure does provide incentive >>to move on... to where: FreeBSD, LINUX ????? > > WHy NOT? If FreeBSD were called 386bsd 0.1.5, or 0.2, NOBODY > would be bitching about this. But because it's not, it's the DEATH > of 386BSD? If anything, look at how well NetBSD is doing, and how > many machines it now works on . I'd say that 386BSD > has been a DAMN good thing. Just a note that Marc didn't mention: at one time the FreeBSD group, which was the 386BSD 0.1 + patchkit group, had an official OK from Bill Jolitz to do a 0.1.5 release, and would have been happy to do so. For all intents and purposes, FreeBSD is 386BSD + a whole hell of a lot of patches and updated software. NetBSD may not be able to be said to be a 386BSD derivitive any more, what with all the porting to different platforms and such; very little original 386BSD code is left above and beyond what was available on the net as Net/2 or other net available sources; it's more of a cousin now. NetBSD was released about a week after the FreeBSD group got approval to do the interim release, but before they told much of anyone (for lack of a fixed organization and spokesperson to do the telling). Anyone who views NetBSD or FreeBSD as competitors to 386BSD might be right, now that it has been so long, but anyone who views NetBSD and FreeBSD are competitors would be incorrect in doing so. The good patches get to both groups, both groups share code, and people are members of both. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.