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".



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