Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!psgrain!quagga.ru.ac.za!Braae!g89r4222
From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: 18 Jul 1994 06:55:54 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
Lines: 39
Message-ID: <30d91q$cs6@quagga.ru.ac.za>
References: <2vgvc7$3tg@spruce.cic.net> <301rrc$cmv@masala.cc.uh.edu> <Csxxqo.DsM@newsserver.aggregate.com> <3097eh$m2h@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <Bs2yi5F.dysonj@delphi.com> <michaelv.774429899@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za
NNTP-Posting-Host: braae.ru.ac.za
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV)
In <michaelv.774429899@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>In <Bs2yi5F.dysonj@delphi.com> John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> writes:
>Nate and you say that both platforms are on even ground when it comes
>to starting new architecutre ports from scratch. Yet, the NetBSD code
>already has all the hard to find endien problems all fixed, and is
>withing weeks of "shipping" a 4.4-based system, NetBSD-1.0, that is
>releasing on more architectures than can be counted on one hand. It's
>already done there! The compat subsystem is mature and fully
>debugged; the different arch layers are well defined; a good system
>for implementing all the different parts is in place.
(Also, I'm not trying to be hostile - I'd just like to clarify
something.)
As I understand it NetBSD is still using a source tree which is derived
from the Net/2 tape, and not the 4.4Lite tape (correct me if I am
wrong), so I don't think that NetBSD-1.0 can claim to be 4.4BSD-based.
- If the code base from which it is derived is Net/2, then it is still
Net/2 derived with 4.4BSD extensions. (This would be unlike FreeBSD 2.0
which is derived directly from the 4.4-Lite tape, and will have the
code from FreeBSD 1.x integrated into it.) I think that in order to
claim to be 4.4-Lite based, one has to have the 4.4-Lite code as the
starting point of one's development.
(As far as I can tell, none of us will ever be able to claim to be
4.4BSD based, but 4.4BSD-Lite based ;-)
(Note that the above points do not detract in any way from NetBSD as an
operating system!)
Geoff.
--
Geoff Rehmet, Computer Science Department, | ____ _ o /\
Rhodes University, South Africa |___ _-\_<, / /\/\
FreeBSD core team | (*)/'(*) /\/ / \ \
csgr@cs.ru.ac.za, csgr@freefall.cdrom.com, geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za