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From: kpneal@interpath.com (Kevin P. Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: List of OpenBSD changes
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 96 21:44:02 GMT
Organization: It's a Bedroom--Not A Lab
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In article <v6lofo6lju.fsf@kechara.flame.org>, Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
<DERAADT.96Aug9113040@zeus.theos.com> wrote:
>deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) writes:
>
>> We've fixed some stuff brought up in FreeBSD bug reports too. We also
>> merged a lot of fixes FreeBSD made (since their source tree is
>> available in RCS format, this was much easier, and we could give
>> credit to those who did the work in FreeBSD).
>
>You know, I have an idea...
>
>How about making a CommonBSD, which is _only_ userland stuff? That way,
>if NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD are really interested in helping people,
>the collection of common_userland + specific_userland + kernel makes
>a full system.
>
Neat idea. Three problems:
1) Different kernel interfaces on the three systems for some items.
2) Different BSDs have a different focus. What one BSD thinks is a
good idea for a userland program another BSD thinks is stupid.
3) politics
Although I'd like to see this myself, I am not very optimistic about
it happening.
I'd be nice, wouldn't it.
>But, in any case, I too would dearly like to see more cooperation between
>the *BSD teams. I'm willing to host mailing lists, and might even be
>able to support it in some small way with a machine or disk space. Dunno
>yet, but if there is enough interest, perhaps I'll dig further.
>
>--Michael
I agree. It seems like such a waste to have three BSD groups all working
on a similar userland. Bugfixes don't get applied to all three BSDs
when perhaps they should (at least, not all of the fixes get applied).
Cool improvements similarly don't get applied uniformly.
Sigh.
CommonBSD. Neat idea. Who's gonna be in charge? (ducks and runs for
cover).
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