From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 22:23:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A39EE14CED for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:23:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: (qmail 8163 invoked from network); 16 Dec 1999 06:23:47 -0000 Received: from lcb13.cvzoom.net (HELO cvzoom.net) (63.65.159.13) by ns.cvzoom.net with SMTP; 16 Dec 1999 06:23:47 -0000 Message-ID: <38588536.8A0818CB@cvzoom.net> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:22:46 -0500 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Scheidt Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Init Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) ) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Scheidt wrote: > What's wrong with run with system V runlevels? Other than it's system V and > everything AT^HUSL did is evil, of course. Well, the one danger is that we'd be slowly drifting away from the classic BSD way of doing thigs. Of course, the official BSD is dead (right?). But OTOH, we want to carry FreeBSD forward, so if that means we have to incorporate some SysVisms, then so be it. After all, SysV borrowed some things from BSD. The second question I have is, do we try to stay on par with what Open/NetBSD are doing? Should we stick together, synchronise our efforts, and try to define what comprises "BSD"? Or, do we let the 3 BSDs diverge completely? Well, if the 3 diverge too far (ex: FreeBSD implements SysV runlevels, OpenBSD does not or goes with an entirely different system), them would it be fair to consider FreeBSD "BSD"? The advantage here is that FreeBSD would mature into it's own type of UNIX with a BSD heritage. - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message