From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 12:49:44 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA18712 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:49:44 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA18706 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:49:43 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA23026; Mon, 12 Jun 95 13:42:52 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9506121942.AA23026@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: A general question about FreeBSD and NetBSD To: butler@sun1-dal.tx.stratus.com (G. David Butler) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 13:42:51 MDT Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506121734.AA08163@sun1-dal.tx.stratus.com> from "G. David Butler" at Jun 12, 95 12:34:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I have just joined the BSD band-wagon and have a nagging question. This isn't a nagging question, it's a non-sequitor! 8-). > Why are there two separate development efforts of the BSD 4.4 Lite/386BSD > code? It seems both groups have similiar goals and directions (in fact > it seems the groups "borrow" ideas/code from each other. Well, CSRG is (according to them) shutdown. I have heard nothing from Bill for forever (though I did talk to Lynne after they starte the DDJ advertising), so I can't speak to 386BSD. 386BSD split off from CSRG when Bill felt that he wasn't going to get to produce a bootable disk for 4.4 (you really should read the original 386BSD anti-UUNET disclaimer, available at archives where you can still find 386BSD 0.1 ...few of them). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.