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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM: Walnut Creek or Infomagic ?
Followup-To: poster
Date: 11 Jan 1995 22:05:27 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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Message-ID: <3f1kn7$nss@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU>
References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <D2638B.Eut@park.uvsc.edu> <3etolp$2qr6@tiger2.ocs.lsu.edu> <3f17ld$1eg@knobel.gun.de>
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In article <3f17ld$1eg@knobel.gun.de>,
Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.GUN.de> wrote:

>What about letting the core team member concentrate more on 
>the kernel level concerning multi platform BSD, concentrate
>the FreeBSD members to the hardware dependend i386 things ...
>And let both camps fix the Unix utilities, compiler ....

1) I work on FreeBSD, and I really couldn't care less about the
hardware-dependent i386 things, so long as it works on my machine.

2) There is considerable difference of opinion as to what constitutes
a `fix'.

-GAWollman

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