19 May
2015
19 May
'15
10:48 p.m.
Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> writes:
I stand corrected! Looking at Éric Lévénez' time line of Unix, I see
that you're right. In my own recollection, the FreeBSD split, which
happened a few months after Chris Demetriou and others started NetBSD,
was out of NetBSD -- but it seems it was, after all, a parallel fork
from Bill Jolitz' code base. (The whole thing triggered because he
didn't adopt the patch kits, and the NetBSD/FreeBSD separation taking
place because of differences of opinion on multi-architecture support.)
And, while it's a subject: the split was on very friendly terms. :)
-tih
--
Popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity. --Niles Crane, "Frasier"
Getting early
NetBSD in there would help complete the continuity, seeing
as NetBSD was a fork of 386BSD, and FreeBSD a later fork of NetBSD.
FreeBSD was never a fork of NetBSD. OpenBSD was a later fork of NetBSD.
FreeBSD and NetBSD both forked from the patch kits that were produced for
the 386BSD project.