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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2796 comp.os.linux.misc:20186 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know! Date: 25 Jul 1994 05:04:36 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 31 Message-ID: <30vh54$k6d@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <MYCROFT.94Jul20041518@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <30mpkt$gin@u.cc.utah.edu> <GLASS.94Jul22090301@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <GLASS.94Jul22090301@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU> glass@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass) writes: ] I suggest you reexamine your own articles on the nature of you porting ] process; since neither the NetBSD or FreeBSD groups has yet made the ] BSD4.4-Lite derived source trees they have available (and have only ] announced plans to do this at the end of July), I can only go by what ] each group has claimed (much in the same way I can only judge 386BSD ] 1.0 by the rantings posted by various people claiming to have seen it). ] ] Hi Terry, ] ] You are misinformed. NetBSD has made it's integration of BSD 4.4-Lite ] available since day one. There is no seperate 4.4 Lite branch of ] NetBSD. As soon as we started to incorporate 4.4 Lite, those sources ] were available to the public through NetBSD-current which is ] retrievable via daily sup, weekly source snapshots, and occasional ] binary snapshots. Through this mechanism we were able to have the ] integration of 4.4 Lite subsystems tested incrementally. OK, I santd corrected; thanks Adam! I was under the impression (apparently wrong) that there was NetBSD into a branch called "Magnum", which was different from the "current" branch which was publically available, and was where the initial 4.4-Lite integration was being done. Guess I was misinformed. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.