From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 17 11:54:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.fundy.net (smtp.fundy.net [24.231.0.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 689B537B6D6 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:54:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by smtp.fundy.net via sendmail with stdio id for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:52:51 -0400 (AST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #5 built 2000-Nov-22) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:52:51 -0400 From: David Maxwell To: James Howard Cc: opentrax@email.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? Message-ID: <20010117155250.A19627@fundy.ca> Mail-Followup-To: James Howard , opentrax@email.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG References: <200101171842.KAA04000@spammie.svbug.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from James Howard on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:40:57AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:40:57AM -0800, James Howard wrote: > (Brief background, I am bored. I noticed a trend that everytime someone > mentions BSD on Slashdot, someone asks what the differences are between > the BSDs, aside from hype. I am trying to resolve that question.) > > So at this point, I am trying to figure out why NetBSD and FreeBSD didn't > pool resource early. I wasn't involved - here's my understanding from the discussions I've seen. Well, for the Kernel, that woudn't have been possible - FreeBSD didn't want to be slowed down by doing all that 'portability' stuff, and NetBSD wasn't willing to be Intel only. In userland, there probably could have been (and still could be?) more co-development and sharing. > Why did Jolitz pull support from 386BSD? And what was BSDi doing at the > time? It was a project to do the port, it was never something he had intended to maintain - he didn't 'pull' support, he just refused to get suckered into ongoing work he didn't want to do. BSDi was fighting the USL lawsuit I believe. -- David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net --> Mastery of UNIX, like mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear, but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. - Thomas Scoville To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message