From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 17 13: 6: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6295837B6CB; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:05:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA96480; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:02:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200101172102.QAA96480@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Nik Clayton" Cc: "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" , "James Howard" , "netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org" Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:36:06 -0500 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20010117175244.A34934@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:52:44 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: >> What I never understood is why "officially" they don't coperate more with >> each other. I believe that unoficially some of the developers >> work/help/contribute to more than one of the BSDs. > >Lots of the developers work on more than one BSD. What would you like >to see in order to make that 'official'? A list, even if minimal, of things which the "architects" (i.e. core on FreeBSD, don't know it's equivalent on NetBSD) agreed to at least consider the other OS. I am not saying they should consult each other for everything, but they could at least keep in other in mind that would be great. >> Does anyone know what ever happened to the push for an unified port >> system? > > http://www.openpackages.org/ That is a very good start on "bringing the BSDs together". francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message