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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: *BSD Unification?
Date: 3 Apr 1997 22:18:07 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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Yeh, I used to think it was worthwhile and practical too... but even without
the personality problems there's all this incompatible but interesting work
going on in the different kernels that really couldn't go on in just one.
Oh, and for the guy saying that Linux was grabbing the best of BSD... I don't
get it. It's not happening... if it was Linux would have picked up the BSD
networking long since. It's a relatively easy module to steal, if you just
look at the number of people who've done it (including, by some rumors, good
old Microsoft).
I know it's popular to say that BSD can't bring in stuff from Linux as fast as
Linux can bring in stuff from BSD, but in practice there's a number of drivers
AND the Linux emulation in FreeBSD 2.2 that say the opposite's true.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'