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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!wx.gtegsc.com!mh From: mh@wx.gtegsc.com (Michael Hoegeman) Subject: One more BSD?? just say no. (was Re: Where do we go from here?) Message-ID: <1994Apr26.060607.17149@wx.gtegsc.com> Organization: GTE Contel Federal Systems, Westlake Village CA X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <MYCROFT.94Apr25162542@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 06:06:07 GMT Lines: 35 Charles Hannum (mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote: : In article <2p9fur$kin@zenos.physci.psu.edu> : tenser@zenos.physci.psu.edu (Dan Cross) writes: : Now that the UCB has stopped working on BSD, bell labs has : discontinued work on the 10th edition research UNIX, and Novell has : bought USL, who is going to keep UNIX alive? : I can't call it `UNIX', but the flame is alive and reasonably well on : my machines. See my .signature: : - Charles Hannum : NetBSD group Not to degrade NetBSD and other fine efforts but I would say that bell has not exactly extinguished their portion of the unix flame. I mean there is Plan 9 after all. It can certainly be argued that Plan 9 is the "next" unix (so to speak) and that the various BSD's in comparison are just fanning an ember. I understand my analogies are not completely fair but you can see the point I'm trying to make. Of course you can also argue that I can't go ftp plan9 and start playing. One can hope though... In any case I think the u(se)nix world would be much better off with one less BSD type project and one more plan 9 type project. One half of me wants to scream whenever yet another BSD project starts up. The other half looks forward to when someone get's 4.4lite running on my microwave oven. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Hoegeman email: mh@wx.gtegsc.com tel: (818)706-4145 GTE Weather Systems Group 31717 La Tienda Dr, Westlake Village CA. 91359