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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!udel!sbcs.sunysb.edu!stark.UUCP!gene From: gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?) Date: 22 Apr 93 07:51:09 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 18 Message-ID: <GENE.93Apr22075109@stark.uucp> References: <1qvpc9$1e8@agate.berkeley.edu> <1r067g$915@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> <CGD.93Apr19235932@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <C5sCvr.3G1@unx.sas.com> <CGD.93Apr20124457@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <GENE.93Apr21081836@stark.uucp> <1993Apr21.193218.5724@cs.few.eur.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: stark.uucp In-reply-to: pk@cs.few.eur.nl's message of Wed, 21 Apr 1993 19:32:18 GMT In article <1993Apr21.193218.5724@cs.few.eur.nl> pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg) writes: In <GENE.93Apr21081836@stark.uucp> gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark (Gene Stark) writes: >Arrgggh! OK, I just read this whole thread, and I wasn't upset before but >now I am. When the NetBSD 0.8 announcement came out I saw that many of the As to the different (more generic) name, I like the change since it hints, if only in name, at the possibility of supporting other platforms. This will help with keeping portability up on an acceptable level. I like the name, too. What I would like to see happen is for the patchkit effort and NetBSD to merge. I am guessing 386BSD 0.2 is going to be so different that very few people are going to want to use it, so at this point I am not really even expecting to use that if/when it comes out. Why not have one main line "Net BSD" system to avoid dilution of effort? -- stark@cs.sunysb.edu