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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!uunet!pipex!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NetBSD questions In-Reply-To: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu's message of Tue, 20 Jul 1993 08: 21:42 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Jul20112508@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <CAGF86.3qn@rex.uokhsc.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 11:25:08 GMT Lines: 52 >386BSD 0.1 - Basic starting point of 386BSD. Not very robust >386BSD 0.1 + patchkit (currently at 0.2.4) - 386BSD, but it works >386BSD 0.1.5 - Stable version of patched 386BSD >386BSD 0.2 - "The greatest BSD ever made - promised by WJ" >NetBSD 0.8 - offshoot of 386BSD 0.1 + 0.1.5 patchkit designed to be more Almost. 0.1.5 is now called "FreeBSD" and represents quite a bit more than just a "stable patched version" - it and NetBSD can more properly be considered siblings. The primary difference between the two groups is that we are more conservative in what we add (we don't have, for example, things like kernfs, devfs, LKM's, etc - we will probably have some of these in the future, but only after they've been well shaken out), and we're more inclined to focus on added functionality at the utility level (more bundled packages, willingness to use GNU software, etc). >386BSD 0.1.5 trys to be more stable as it will be distributed on >CD-ROM. An alpha release should be put up for ftp this week on >freefall.cdrom.com. Erm. Well, I may have let the cat out of the bag earlier but I never said *THAT*. We're going to initially push it out to a few early ALPHA testers (around 10 or so) to shake out all the obvious problems before we push it out to the world. That said, I'd hate to close the door on anyone really wishing to take part in the ALPHA or BETA releases, so send me mail if you're both interested and GENUINELY HAVE THE TIME to seriously evaluate it! Sorry to use caps, but lots of folks just want to be the first on their block to see it, and after we've gone through a lot of trouble supporting them while they get it it up and working, they lose interest and disappear! >versions? We seem to need a reliable base version; an extended, >reliable, friendly version based on the reliable base version; and a In a nutshell, that's us. >research version -- based loosely on the reliable version. Right now, And that's NetBSD. I think the divisions are pretty clear, and sensible. > One thing I would like to see are more binary too releases -- some >of the bugs fixed in the patchkits are prevent me from aquiring them (I >was never able to download 386BSD 0.1 because the serial driver in the We will be doing this - Rodney Grimes is working on the binary distribution set right now. Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie