From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 18 19:20:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791ED37B69B for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:20:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1584"@[136.142.89.21]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01JZ2HB0GPYG004QIS@mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu> for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:20:15 EST Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:31:51 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG Message-id: <3A67B527.DB3B58B1@pitt.edu> Organization: University of Pittsburgh MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,es-CO References: <20010117175244.A34934@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200101172102.QAA96480@sanson.reyes.somos.net> <20010118001403.B10950@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > ... > > > agreed to at least consider the other OS. I am not saying they > > should consult each other for everything, but they could at least > > keep in other in mind that would be great. > > Well, I agree with Nik that things are getting a lot closer. But I > think that the way to come closer together is for the individual > subprojects to work together. And I think that's happening. > A comment from an outsider: The codebases are converging slowly but around the same principles. UBC and SMP, altough still early on NetBSD, FreeBSD's initial multiplatform support, and the concept of auditing derived from OpenBSD, are signs that the projects are sharing objectives (maybe) for the first time. Having three BSD camps has been great...did you notice that NetBSD's development spurred when OpenBSD was created?? Maybe it's the time for a unified "Free" BSD, maybe not. This is just my personal view, and I don't really know the actors here, but I don't see OpenBSD folding back into any other project. While difficult, I would see NetBSD merging with FreeBSD in a future..how far? nobody knows... when people have worked on a great project for so many years it's difficult to move another camp suddenly. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message