On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

On 31/08/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Just a stupid comment, but ... Linux is one kernel, multiple distributions
... BSD is, what, 4 kernels now?  If we worked more together instead of as
seperate camps, it might make things a bit easier, no?

Isn't there still fewer differences between *BSD operating systems
than between different GNU/Linux distributions and kernel releases? :)

Put together a *BSD "core" ... representative from each camp and try and
steer the *kernel* itself towards a more common BSD ...

I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all
different goals...

Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for, what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write one for FreeBSD, one for NetBSD, one for OpenBSD, and *now* one for DragonflyBSD ... if we had *at least* a common API for that sort of stuff, it might be asier to get support at the vendor level, no?

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