From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 26 12:40:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03229 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sundance.stacken.kth.se (sundance.stacken.kth.se [130.237.234.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03224 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:40:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from art@stacken.kth.se) Received: from pizza.stacken.kth.se (pizza.stacken.kth.se [130.237.234.73]) by sundance.stacken.kth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18091; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:40:09 +0100 (MET) Received: (from art@localhost) by pizza.stacken.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA20880; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:41:20 +0100 (MET) To: Adrian Filipi-Martin Cc: Greg Lehey , Alicia da Conceicao , netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list , advocacy@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux References: From: Artur Grabowski Date: 26 Nov 1998 21:41:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:09:54 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.44/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ADRIAN Filipi-Martin writes: > Sure, the kernel is defintely the hard part. How much divergence > has there been in userland? I run OpenBSD on a sparc and I see a few > things here and there. I wonder how feasible it would be to have a > unified distribution with three possible kernel architectures, yet a > unified userland? (He quickly ducks for cover.) As long as device files, > filesystem and directory hierarchies were agreed to, it seems feasible. I have a standard reply to things that people always have good ideas about. "When are you ready?" Speaking about things doesn't improve reality in this case. If you want something like this done you can: - do it yourself. - pay someone to do it. - Convince someone to do it. Generating 1000 mails with good ideas won't write code. Sorry. I'm not picking at someone specific. It's a generic rant to all people that can't stop talking about this. Either accept reality as it is or do something about it. And filling peoples spools doesn't get anything done. Merging the BSDs is easy, just diff(1) and patch(1). If everybody in this thread would just merge one single utility instead of coming with good ideas you would be closer to One World, One License, One BSD. Apparently talking is more important than getting the job done. //art To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message