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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeFSD
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Date: 15 Nov 1993 02:52:25 GMT
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In-reply-to: root@stranneek.nsi.nasa.gov's message of 14 Nov 93 08:58:58 +0600
In article <1993Nov14.085858.714@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov> root@stranneek.nsi.nasa.gov (Michael C. Newell) writes:
FreeBSD}. This is fine; choices make life interesting. However,
you say the merger talks failed over some "technical issues",
but you don't say what these issues are. They are clearly
I did not say "technical issues" at all! I said "various problems and
fundamental differences of opinion", which is something else entirely.
The technical issues are, and have always been, the least of our
worries.
I've seen a lot of "the difference between NetBSD and FreeBSD
is [pick one] is more stable." I've been using NetBSD 0.8 for
I tried to make it very plain my my posting that "stability" is not
the fundamental differentiation point any more, and it's not (though
this did not stop Chris from going on to attack us on that point
anyway - sigh!)
I'll repeat:
"... some of the comp.os.386bsd.* newsgroups, both operating systems have
reached the point where they are both very useful (and relatively
stable) development platforms for the Intel architecture, and no one
would be wrong in chosing either of the two offerings."
Did anyone *read* my posting? :-)
c. The specific differences between the products.
- What does NetBSD have that FreeBSD doesn't?
- What does FreeBSD have that NetBSD doesn't?
- What's in the works for each system?
We'd have to update such a list once a week at the very least and it
just wouldn't be worth it. As always, the way to stay up to date is
to join one or both of the xxxbsd-hackers mailing lists since things
are just changing too rapidly for us to keep people updated any other
way! We could post a "new features/changes" list to this group once a
month, I suppose, and probably should - it's just that no one has
really had the time. I don't argue that the users who can't keep up
with the mail "firehoses" represented by the xxxbsd-hackers mailing
lists are somewhat deprived of other options..
Keep up the good work; it's MUCH appreciated!!
Thank you!
Jordan
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(Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie