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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD 0.9, wait? [was: Re: from 386bsd0.1 to FreeBSD
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In article <hastyCDAz16.5M7@netcom.com>,
Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote:
>Care to elaborate or at least list the issues?

Thankfully, I didn't save all that mail, it was too painful.

Quite honestly, it's mainly personnel issues, as to who should do what.
There is a document describing the proposed merge, but I don't feel
at liberty to post it, as it does mention names and such.

There aren't many technical reasons, that a merge can't happen.

A few minor differences exist:

FreeBSD feels sio is stable enough, NetBSD doesn't.
NetBSD has the interest of ports to non-PC platforms, I'm not sure that
FreeBSD does.
NetBSD has the definite intent of moving towards 4.4, FreeBSD doesn't.

There are others.  Hell, these aren't even major ones, they're just some.


Frankly, I feel there's room for both.  Since it's a volunteer effort, there's
no way to "force" somebody to work with somebody else, and becoming
dictatorial about it is a no-win situation, as it makes other people
unhappy.

People that complain that the divisiveness causes a problem need to
state their case better.  For the most part, applications will drop right
into both, as long as it doesn't muck around in the kernel much.

People that want to hack can pick and choose.

Nothing keeps FreeBSD from picking up the best i386 specific parts of
NetBSD and incorporating them and pushing the product.
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu