From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 16 2:26:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mc-qout4.whowhere.com (mc-qout4.whowhere.com [209.185.123.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72E2B14F83 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 02:26:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olafs@my-deja.com) Received: from Unknown/Local ([?.?.?.?]) by my-deja.com; Mon Aug 16 01:57:31 1999 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:57:31 -0700 From: "Olaf Stoyke" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: X-Sent-Mail: on Reply-To: X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: Looking for *BSD Insight... X-Sender-Ip: 194.175.125.228 Organization: My Deja Email (http://www.my-deja.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 1223 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG! I've learned that there is a FreeBSD, a NetBSD and an OpenBSD (hoping that I have not forgotten a member of the *BSD group :). From a developer's point of view, the following questions are quite interesting: - What are the differences of these three versions/ releases/distributions? - What are the differences in the system APIs? - Provided that I find the time to do so, is it possible to develop device drivers for all three ebvironments based on one source? Or are the interfaces required to build/install the driver too different to make this approach possible? - If the differences are of practically no relevance (only minor stuff), are there plans to unite the three *BSDs or to (at least) build some uniform device driver interfaces so that a driver can be used without modifications? If these questions have previously been discussed somewhere and/or were written down into a FAQ, I apologize (in advance) and will continue to look for these comments in the newsgroups, mailing-lists and FAQs... Regards, Olaf --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message