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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 02:53:43 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3174BFA7.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <yfgbuktfn1w.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <3172AF35.15A9D29E@wolfenet.com> <4l0g1j$kv7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21650 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:655 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3280 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3113 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17577 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46068 Kevin P. Neal wrote: > Nitpick: didn't Linux compat code come from NetBSD? Ah well, point taken. Only some of it - the Linux emulation efforts evolved rather separately, with Soren Schmidt doing the first cut entirely on his own. Unfortunately, his effort sort of ran out of steam so we subsequently looked into adopting more of the NetBSD stuff. I, for one, would be perfectly happy for both camps to standardise on a single code base for this but there are significnant technical hurdles to be cleared before the two BSD camps will ever be able to share significant parts of their kernel code. For now, we're just focusing on functionality and will deal with the consolidation of effort question another day. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project