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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5089 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1000 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD 0.9, wait? [was: Re: from 386bsd0.1 to FreeBSD Message-ID: <hastyCDBExD.5v0@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Sep13.121342.3732@cm.cf.ac.uk> <hastyCDAz16.5M7@netcom.com> <272isk$b8f@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 23:07:59 GMT Lines: 61 In article <272isk$b8f@pdq.coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: >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. I hate to see two separate groups doing almost the same thing. If you think that there is room for both think again -- there are many areas that *BSD is lacking such that if we had a single effort we could perhaps pick-up, ISDN support, Multi-media applications, hardware support for 3d-graphics, fddi support, BIOS support, WABI, etc... Is anyone looking into CORBA? What about nifty database applications? the list goes on... Fine, lets mirror the tiny Unix market,perhaps for the same reasons. It is clear that if there is to be a single *BSD distribution that the selection rests with the user community since the principal developers can not come to an agreement. The future now rests with the users... Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming