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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Is BSD dead?
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From: bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:06:28 GMT
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Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com) wrote:
: >: David Bellamy <bellamy@commerce.uq.edu.au> writes:
: >:> BSD derived systems are pretty well dead (yes I'm sure there is an
: >:> exception, somewhere) but most mainstream suppliers now are using SVR4
: >:> derived systems.
: > Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com) wrote:
: >: You just "forgot" about BSDI, FreeBSD and NetBSD, didn't you? They still
: >: look amazingly live to me ...
: bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) writes:
: > Not compared to Linux! Their are alot of talented BSD people who could
: > be helping the Linux group but instead just in the UNIX tradition you
: > have all these different variants of free UNIX.
: So you believe that BSDI should just shut down the company and have their
: employees work on Linux for free, then?
BSDI is commercial and should continue in their niche market providing a
supported, high quality BSD for those who want/need it. The day there
is no longer a need, is the day BSDI will have to decide as a company
what to do.
As for the *BSD people, why two camps(FreeBSd and NetBSD)? I do think it would be
good if the Linux & *BSD camps got together on one common OS. Maybe someday it will
happen who knows. Alot of time is spent implementing something that
is already implemented in another free OS.
: > Luckily Caldera choose Linux as most people are, and more importantly
: > Linux trys to be POSIX compliant meaning their is no BSD or SYSV bias!
: No, there is a Linux bias. :) More than half of the "different variants
: of free UNIX" are different Linux versions.
No matter what Linux you have, the kernel was done by the linux kernel group which
Linus oversees. So you either have a 1.2x kernel or a 1.3x (development) kernel.
Caldera is based on RedHat Software's which uses the latest 1.2x kernel.