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Some time ago max@underg.UUCP (Max Cray) happily mumbled: 
>ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>
>> We are seeing a very nice flowering of the free Unixes available
>> (obviously in source).  Linux is now in v.95 and BSD v0.0 have arrived
>> (both for the 386).  BSD might become available for SPARC, and GNU is
>> said to be aiming for 386 and SPARC.
>
>This is all great news. Things are really looking up in the free software 
>world. Having several choices is good, I guess, but I can't help but wonder 
>if everyone would work on different parts of the same project things would 
>go faster, instead of everyone re-creating the wheel. On the other hand, if 
>everyone who is working on a free unix, or unix like os worked together 
>amybe it would be slower, decideing how it should be done, etc.

Greetings,
    Truth be told, I'm working on one free OS (Linux) while listening
to expert folks talk about two others.  (BSD and Hurd.)  I'm not
kernel-experienced, so I wouldn't have the faintest idea what a bug
looked like in a scheduler code block, or what a memory management
race condition tastes like.  I'm delving into the depths of Linux
because it's small and I might be able to learn it.  I'm also
listening carefully to the smart people on the hurd-folks mailing list
so I can get an idea of how the small ideas I'm grasping are applied
on a large-system basis.  I'm toying with the idea of setting up a
386BSD system so I can get a feel for the later stages of bugs in a
large OS!  *gr'yn*

    This is why I'm glad there are a couple of projects going on.  Not
all of us have the requisite skills to wade in up to our elbows in the
black magic of 386BSD, and prefer a relatively simpler system such as
Linux.

    Right now, the projects I'm aware of are 386BSD (whose outlet
seems to be this group right here, happily), Linux (the
linux-activists mailing list and the comp.os.linux group), and the GNU
Hurd (hurd-folks mailing list).  If anyone knows of any others, please
tell me!

    One of the things I'm watching avidly, is to see who of Linux
and BSD will have a working X first!  *gr'yn*  (GNU is still out of
the race, since they don't have a bootable OS yet...  *sigh*)  I know
there are BSD folks making X work with 386BSD, and I know that there
are Linux folks making X work with Linux...  STAY TUNED!

                                                --  Morgan Schweers

P.S.  Does this make any sense:  Using Linux to compile a 386BSD
   system to use to do development for the GNU Hurd project...*heh heh*
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