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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:8800 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1959 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [q] Why (Free & Net)BSD use different binaries? Date: 15 Feb 1994 19:22:05 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 38 Message-ID: <JKH.94Feb15192206@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <CL7tvx.A74@news.cis.umn.edu> <2jotfv$irj@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: storm@cs.mcgill.ca's message of 14 Feb 1994 22:20:47 GMT In article <2jotfv$irj@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: [ A nice article but lacking a little accuracy in places ] these people were tempted to join up with the netbsd camp, and start the mother of all free operating systems. [most being largely of the opinion that linux was pooopoo for what they wanted]. This is inaccurate. Around the time that the 386BSD patchkit coordinators were getting sick of the patchkit, NetBSD was just itself starting out and it was by no means certain that it was going to be anything but a group of people talking (as we ourselves were little more than doing). We didn't elect not to join NetBSD due to any lack of tact or diplomacy, we did our own thing because it seemed the thing to do at the time. thus, the netbsd people decided to do what they were doing, and the old 386bsd people decide to continue working on the 386bsd code base, but instead rename it to freebsd, since 386bsd was all but dead. Wrong. We renamed it to FreeBSD since Bill Jolitz _insisted_ that we not do another release under the name "386bsd"! 386bsd is the common ancestor. netbsd and freebsd are diverging code trees that both do pretty much the same thing. [run You forget that BOTH FreeBSD and NetBSD have now moved away from 386BSD's ZMAGIC format (no, you didn't get the letters right! :-). NetBSD is running their own version of ZMAGIC, FreeBSD is running with basically BSDI's QMAGIC. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Electric Bivalves Anonymous On the net, no one can hear you scream.