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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2747 comp.os.linux.misc:19905 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know! Date: 20 Jul 1994 08:15:16 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 30 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Jul20041518@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> <1994Jul18.093302.19670@wmichgw> <30g0af$bfv@u.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 19 Jul 1994 07:45:19 GMT In article <30g0af$bfv@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: The upshot of all this is that the FreeBSD team has been extremely conservative in its mode to 4.4-Lite; specifically, they have taken a 4.4-Lite source tree and basically duplicated William Jolitz's initial effort in 386BSD 0.1 to provide newly coded replacements for any file which USL has deemed questionable. The NetBSD effort has been a bit more avantgarde, porting the 4.4 code into their tree, with the confidence that they have rewritten sufficient code to render their tree legally safe anyway. The above is just flatly untrue, Terry. The only kernel code we've kept from our Net/2 and 386BSD days is parts of the i386 port and kernel modules that we wrote ourselves. That's it, and had *anyone* in the FreeBSD group bothered to ask before they started randomly flaming, we would have said that. If anyone has been more `cavalier', it's almost certainly the FreeBSD people, who basically imported the entire VM code from their 1.1* release (though I'm sure they've done work on it since then). Please keep your misinformation to yourself. -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532. In progress: pmax, sun3.