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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD?
Date: 4 Dec 1995 02:27:58 GMT
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames
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In article <30BD2497.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>Let's ask the NetBSD Project:  What do you say, guys?  A year or so ago,
>both groups shut down mutual read access for fears both real and
>imagined.  What's our situation today?  Anyone over there having
>seditious thoughts about tearing down the Berlin wall?  I personally
>would not mind at all.

I would very much like for FreeBSD and NetBSD to cooperate more.  While
I will personally never run FreeBSD (mostly because I own hp300s, sun3s,
sparcs, and MVME systems), there is a lot of quality code there that NetBSD
could benefit from, and vice-versa.

I think it's fair to say that the goals of the two projects are quite
different, and would likely prevent any merging of the two.  But, that
doesn't mean we can't work together.

BTW, I know of someone currently working on porting FreeBSD's VM system
to NetBSD.  I'll let him speak up if he want's to.

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Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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