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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!isl.cf.ac.uk!paul From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ? Message-ID: <1995Jan16.150956.28489@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Nntp-Posting-Host: isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk Organization: ELSYM, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK. References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <D2638B.Eut@park.uvsc.edu> <3etolp$2qr6@tiger2.ocs.lsu.edu> <3f17ld$1eg@knobel.gun.de> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 15:09:55 +0000 Lines: 53 In article <3f17ld$1eg@knobel.gun.de>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.GUN.de> wrote: >Matthew N. Dodd (mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu) wrote: >: Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote: >: : hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) wrote: >: : > attitudes and levels of emotional maturity that keep FreeBSD and >: : > NetBSD from merging. >: : Sorry, Herb, but it was posts about things like "my level of >: : emotional maturity is higher than yours" that torpedoed the >: : merge attempts. That, and Jordan's "welcome to my killfile, Herb" >: : post. >: : I'd say that fully 3/4's of the members of both camps are probably >: : still pro-merge (but won't be after the "merge 'discussion'" this >: : post will probably now provoke on the part of well intentioned >: : readers). Personally I was never anything *but* "pro merge". > >: Wait a second! What reason is there to merge NetBSd and FreeBSD? >: I respect both of them and when I get a Mac or an Amiga I will gladly >: run NetBSD on it (or an old Sun machine when that happens). From >: what I understand the goals of the two are quite different. NetBSD >: seeks to provide a Unix like OS for lots of different platforms while >: FreeBSD is concentrating on the 386 platform. Not to say that one >: is better than the other but there is really no reason to merge the >: two. I suspect that if the core team members of each group were >: more aware of their counterparts (if they aren't already) that >: this would be an acceptable relationship. > >And you're sure, that one can't merge those goals ... > >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 .... > I think it's time to quash this erroneous perception of FreeBSD as concentrating on the i386 architecture. There are already well developed plans for at least one other platform and we intend supporting others in the future. FreeBSD is also not any more biased towards user land code or kernel code. We have contributers who work on all areas of the system, everything from the low level kernel code to documentation issues. FreeBSD is a general unix project and we've no parameters as to what we will and won't do in the future. We go wherever our contributers can take us. I'm certain NetBSD have the same views. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK