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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5096 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1006 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!cf-cm!paul Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD 0.9, wait? [was: Re: from 386bsd0.1 to FreeBSD Message-ID: <1993Sep14.130448.1258@cm.cf.ac.uk> From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 13:04:47 +0000 Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) References: <hastyCD8A1E.9AA@netcom.com> <1993Sep13.121342.3732@cm.cf.ac.uk> <hastyCDAz16.5M7@netcom.com> Organization: Intelligent Systems Lab, ELSYM, University of Wales, Cardiff Lines: 27 In article <hastyCDAz16.5M7@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >First off, many thanks to the FreeBSD and NetBSD teams for all their >efforts we are evolving and coming along very well. > >In article <1993Sep13.121342.3732@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes: >> >>I believe that we will merge and somewhat sooner than in 6 months time. It >>may be 6 months before the first merged release appears but that's because >>there are a large number of issues to be resolved. >> > > >Care to elaborate or at least list the issues? > Not really :-) However, there are quite a few differences in the actual code. Just mergeing the two source trees will take considerable time but before we even start on that we have to merge the two teams and that inevitably involves some politics. -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk JANET: RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK