Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 13:42:51 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: butler@sun1-dal.tx.stratus.com (G. David Butler) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: A general question about FreeBSD and NetBSD Message-ID: <9506121942.AA23026@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9506121734.AA08163@sun1-dal.tx.stratus.com> from "G. David Butler" at Jun 12, 95 12:34:31 pm
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> 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.
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