Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:50:00 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com> Cc: misc@openbsd.org, Harpalus a Como <harpalus.como@gmail.com>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, miros-discuss@mirbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD Message-ID: <20060831184715.B82634@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <f34ca13c0608310843p4e28b57eoec2f60737c034ddb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060830232723.GU10101@multics.mit.edu> <98f5a8830608301731s2b0663e3g94b0bd32f8a06a78@mail.gmail.com> <c6d37fe0608310259k12fe629eve59e59042fcfdb4c@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSM.4.64L.0608311312190.8977@odem.66h.42h.de> <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <f34ca13c0608310843p4e28b57eoec2f60737c034ddb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 31/08/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Just a stupid comment, but ... Linux is one kernel, multiple distributions >> ... BSD is, what, 4 kernels now? If we worked more together instead of as >> seperate camps, it might make things a bit easier, no? > > Isn't there still fewer differences between *BSD operating systems > than between different GNU/Linux distributions and kernel releases? :) > >> Put together a *BSD "core" ... representative from each camp and try and >> steer the *kernel* itself towards a more common BSD ... > > I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all > different goals... Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for, what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write one for FreeBSD, one for NetBSD, one for OpenBSD, and *now* one for DragonflyBSD ... if we had *at least* a common API for that sort of stuff, it might be asier to get support at the vendor level, no?
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