Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:26:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>, Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se> Cc: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@internetpaper.com>, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, advocacy@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD together against Linux Message-ID: <19981127162648.R682@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981127003924.27486D-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com>; from ADRIAN Filipi-Martin on Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 12:49:30AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981127001824.27486C-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981127003924.27486D-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com>
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On Friday, 27 November 1998 at 0:49:30 -0500, ADRIAN Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, ADRIAN Filipi-Martin wrote: > >> So, again, who would like to participate on such a project, >> scanctioned by a *BSD core team, or not? The michanics of the process are >> fairly straight forward, but they are time intensive. > > Just an addendum to my previous message. If you think you would > be interested in helping on such a task, send me your address off-line. > I'll save them. > > If there is suficcient interest/manpower to make it more than a > one-man show, I'll set up a 3-way CVS mirror at UVa or maybe a local ISP. > We can tag an initial starting point and start merging into one of the > three trees. If this bears fruit we can then re-merge any recent changes > and make it a new baseline for userland. (Yes, there is undoubtedly a lot > more to consider, but it's a start.) > > I think minimally, there would need to be two people from each > group. I am best counted as a FreeBSD'er. Are there five others? Count me out. I don't think this is a worthwhile effort. Discuss things, maintain more communication, try to keep things pointing in the direction, sure. But your efforts aren't going to give us a unified userland: they're more likely to create a fourth version. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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