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From: crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD
Date: 14 Nov 1993 11:06:35 -0500
Organization: Univerisity of Michigan - Dearborn
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jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:

>This statement is being released in hope of putting to rest some of
>the general questions and rumors currently floating around in respect
>to the long discussed merger between the FreeBSD and NetBSD groups.

Here is something I've been thinking about for some time now.  I *love* the
new features and splitting edge technology that NetBSD is currently offering,
but I don't like having something that is 'iffy' or 'unstable'.  Perhaps the
FreeBSD team would be better suited to say, pick up releases of NetBSD
and release a NetBSD 0.9s for stable.  You know, just pick the bugs out of
the NetBSD releases.  The problem with NetBSD is, the next release cures
most if not all of the bugs in the previous release, but it adds 'xxx' feature
that has bugs of it's own... It would be nice to have NetBSD features, and
FreeBSD stability...

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