Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:25:32 -0500 (EST) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, 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: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981127001824.27486C-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <lubvhk2nq4v.fsf@pizza.stacken.kth.se>
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On 26 Nov 1998, Artur Grabowski wrote: > ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> writes: > > > Sure, the kernel is defintely the hard part. How much divergence > > has there been in userland? I run OpenBSD on a sparc and I see a few > > things here and there. I wonder how feasible it would be to have a > > unified distribution with three possible kernel architectures, yet a > > unified userland? (He quickly ducks for cover.) As long as device files, > > filesystem and directory hierarchies were agreed to, it seems feasible. > > I have a standard reply to things that people always have good ideas about. > > "When are you ready?" > > Speaking about things doesn't improve reality in this case. If you want > something like this done you can: > - do it yourself. > - pay someone to do it. > - Convince someone to do it. > > Generating 1000 mails with good ideas won't write code. Sorry. > > I'm not picking at someone specific. It's a generic rant to all people that > can't stop talking about this. Either accept reality as it is or do something > about it. And filling peoples spools doesn't get anything done. Point taken. However, for such an initiative to succed, there ought to be a little discussion and buy-in from the exising developers. How many others would like to see a unified userland source tree? In about a month I will be in a situation to provide such diffs. I could also probably get a CVS server on a decent connection with disk. As you point out, people need to sign on, not just talk. 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. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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