Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:38:35 +600 CDT From: "Larry Dolinar" <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com> To: owner-questions@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question: Unite or Die? Message-ID: <13FACFD14032@bldg1.croute.com>
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>From: Edward Ing <edward.ing@utoronto.ca> dennis wrote: > My question is why have two OS rather than one REALLY good one? > Why dont programmers,hackers,develepors of both teams unite to write the > ultimite OS? > Why the two teams mock at each other? Dont they see the danger in front of > them? I think you take the "mock" thing a bit seriously; however distasteful you may find it, it's not confined to this corner of the net, or society. It is an extremely difficult thing to get many personalities involved in ANY kind of development, much less Un*x. That the FreeBSD team handle it as well as they do is a tremendous credit to them. Apart from the other comments about the development approach, Linux is SystemV-ish, FreeBSD BSD-ish. These two approaches are not entirely compatible, ask anyone using Sun's products (we do, both kinds). Additionally, there is no such thing as the "ultimate OS" in my opinion. We use a lot of Novell and NT at my work, and the Internet flame war of those two (and their followers) is also somewhat reprehensible. If anything, take solace in the fact that progress continues to be made on many fronts. Idealism is a wonderful thing, but some pragmatism must figure in as well. best regards, larry
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