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BSD Learns To Play Nice

Posted by AilleCat on from the unification-in-diversity dept.

Upside Today has an article entitled "BSD community learns to get along". The interesting thing is that BSD seems to be getting more media attention lately. One of the notable points is the upcoming regular "dead-tree" edition of Daemon News, meaning that BSD will now have a print magazine in the US, completely devoted to it. The first copy is slated for January 2001, just a month away.

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  1. What do they mean "learns to play along"? by Nishi-no-wan · · Score: 3
    From what I've seen of the BSD community, they've been working along for a very long time. The various pccard (PCMCIA) drivers were ported from NetBSD to FreeBSD back with PAO2 (which was then redone in 3.x and 4.x), weren't they? And there have been a great many security features ported from OpenBSD to FreeBSD. It just seems to me that FreeBSD has been the blending pot for all of the various flavors for quite a while.

    FreeBSDCon --> BSDCon was a great idea. The current effort to merge ports/packaging system is another one. But were the BSD's really that fragmented all along?