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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13756 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3688 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!newshost!chrisb From: chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD) Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 11 Oct 94 09:53:25 Organization: Telecom Australia - CSSC Lines: 34 Message-ID: <CHRISB.94Oct11095325@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> References: <358o3g$p95@umd5.umd.edu> <hart.780959657@apanix.apana.org.au> <36hof6$de4@quagga.ru.ac.za> <jmonroyCx11pJ.5nv@netcom.com> <36upob$ju6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <jmonroyCxG197.MqI@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au In-reply-to: jmonroy@netcom.com's message of Mon, 10 Oct 1994 06:12:42 GMT In article <jmonroyCxG197.MqI@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: >Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote: >: In article <jmonroyCx11pJ.5nv@netcom.com>, >: Jesus Monroy Jr <jmonroy@netcom.com> wrote: >: >: FreeBSD 2.0, for instance, is no longer >: >: based on 386BSD, but is rather based on 4.4-Lite -- if you did a cvs >: >: checkout of the initial code in our tree you would (if you were lucky) >: >: get 4.4-Lite back. >: >: >: > And let's say you have a *current* version and it >: > hobbles on a few select machines, there is no chance >: > in hell you can convince me that the *whole* 386bsd >: > code tree has been eliminated... > >: Well over 95% of the code has been 'eliminated'. Considering that >: 386bsd was over 90% BSD + 10%, I'd say we're doing pretty good. > >: > I understand that Freebsd plans to use the > 4.4 release as it's base. > Don't you feel this will limit the potential of FreeBSD > as a development enviroment? > > I've spoken to many people on this and they feel > that Chicago or Mach or maybe OS/2 might offer > better resources to applications programmers. > Hence, the feeling that *BSD might be on it's > death bed. Certainly, the lack of interest by > programmers in general, especially when compared > to other OSs as a whole, tends to prove my point. Ok, let's rename the FreeBSD team to the BSD Chicago 95 team and the NetBSD Team to the OS BSD/2 team.