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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!uniwa!nfm From: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup <Summary> Date: 15 Sep 1992 11:31:36 +0800 Organization: The University of Westrn Australia Lines: 44 Message-ID: <193leoINN7kt@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> References: <22376@venera.isi.edu> <1992Sep12.205451.15726@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1992Sep12.232207.25719@cs.sfu.ca> <1992Sep13.204309.8174@cs.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) writes: >>In a soundbite >> >> comp.os.bsd >> comp.os.bsd.pc-clone >> >>Which would cover bsd386, 386/bsd, mach-386, BNRSS-386, (the last two >>only in regard to their BSD nature, not their mach nature) >> >Hate it, hate it, hate it. Why should people have to read about >systems they're not interested it, just because they're (possibly) >similar? It's not just (possible) similarity. It's more than 90% of the code. It's the whole user philosophy. It's the huge number of programs that have been written for this family of operating systems. BSD. It's more than just a state of mind :) >By this reasoning, we could just do away with newgroups altogether, >and revert to one top-level group called 'news'. If everyone had >*really* nifty threaded newsreaders, it might work... Not! For most users, and even kernel hackers, it is difficult to find more than small differences between each *implementation* of BSD. None of the above mentioned OS's have diverged enough to justify stuffing up the usenet namespace for some really stupid politiking. A modernish BSD on a VAX is similar to a modern BSD on an HP300, is very similar to a modern BSD on a 386. Software generally "just compiles" (hahaha). There is a justification for separate groups for each implementation (after all, you've got all of those messy device drivers ...) but none for a seperate *hierarchy* "go it alone cos we're soooo much different from everyone else". Peter -- email: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au snail: Peter Cooper fax: +61 9 380 1041 Guild of Undergraduates phone: +61 9 380 3929 University of Western Australia "It was the banana that did it!" - Julia Marley