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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov!williams From: williams@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: To Merge or Not to Merge *BSD. What does it really mean? Date: 23 Jan 1995 19:51:41 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3g11cd$opj@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <3enogm$5l7@fw.novatel.ca> <3f1h83$hgl@newshost.lanl.gov> <3f253c$es0@agate.berkeley.edu> <3f9hst$q8n@idiom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov In article <3f9hst$q8n@idiom.com>, David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> wrote: >At the upcoming USENIX, BSDI, FreeBSD, and NetBSD are all having >BOFs (informal public meetings) and guess what? They are all scheduled >for the same time slot so it isn't possible to attend more than one. >Says a lot doesn't it? I was very glad that got sorted out before the BoFs took place. I was thus able to attend at least some part of all three BoFs. >Source and binary compatability between the camps is extreamly important. YES! >The FreeBSD camp should consider it a bug whenever a NetBSD program >fails to compile or its binary to run. > >The NetBSD camp should consider it a bug whenever a FreeBSD program >fails to compile or its binary to run. > >Whenever possilbe kernel interfaces should be made identical. YES! YES! I would even go so far as to suggest that they all support iBCS2, and that BSD/OS (from BSDI) be included in the above. I am running Linux now, instead of NetBSD, because I want to run a program for which I can only get Linux BINARIES! Argh! I realize that this involves work that isn't perhaps as interesting as doing other things to the system. But I think that having a common binary standard would be one of the best things to happen to the Free Unix community. Jim, Stuck in Linux Land -- -- James W. Williams NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- williams@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov Code 633 -- +1 301 286-1131 Greenbelt, MD 20771