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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13741 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3676 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD) Message-ID: <jmonroyCxG197.MqI@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <358o3g$p95@umd5.umd.edu> <hart.780959657@apanix.apana.org.au> <36hof6$de4@quagga.ru.ac.za> <jmonroyCx11pJ.5nv@netcom.com> <36upob$ju6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 06:12:42 GMT Lines: 36 Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote: : In article <jmonroyCx11pJ.5nv@netcom.com>, : Jesus Monroy Jr <jmonroy@netcom.com> wrote: : >: FreeBSD 2.0, for instance, is no longer : >: based on 386BSD, but is rather based on 4.4-Lite -- if you did a cvs : >: checkout of the initial code in our tree you would (if you were lucky) : >: get 4.4-Lite back. : >: : > And let's say you have a *current* version and it : > hobbles on a few select machines, there is no chance : > in hell you can convince me that the *whole* 386bsd : > code tree has been eliminated... : Well over 95% of the code has been 'eliminated'. Considering that : 386bsd was over 90% BSD + 10%, I'd say we're doing pretty good. : I understand that Freebsd plans to use the 4.4 release as it's base. Don't you feel this will limit the potential of FreeBSD as a development enviroment? I've spoken to many people on this and they feel that Chicago or Mach or maybe OS/2 might offer better resources to applications programmers. Hence, the feeling that *BSD might be on it's death bed. Certainly, the lack of interest by programmers in general, especially when compared to other OSs as a whole, tends to prove my point. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________