Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:52:44 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@well.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? Message-ID: <20010117175244.A34934@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101171233340.11927-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:36:29PM -0500 References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101170832450.25926-100000@well.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101171233340.11927-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:36:29PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, James Howard wrote:
>
> > I was sitting here reading the histories of FreeBSD and NetBSD and trying
> > to make sense of it all. Both split off from 386BSD in 1993. That much
> > everyone seems to agree on. As near as I can tell, FreeBSD split in
> > mid-1993 and NetBSD in earler 1993. But why didn't the FreeBSD group just
> > become a 385-militant wing of the NetBSD development effort? Why was a
> > different project needed?
>
> Politics, different points of views, big egos...(one, some or all of
> those) The same goes for why OpenBSD came to be and why there are still 3
> BSDs.
>
> What I never understood is why "officially" they don't coperate more with
> each other. I believe that unoficially some of the developers
> work/help/contribute to more than one of the BSDs.
Lots of the developers work on more than one BSD. What would you like
to see in order to make that 'official'?
> Does anyone know what ever happened to the push for an unified port
> system?
http://www.openpackages.org/
N
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