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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: The future for 386BSD?
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In article <C41KFu.2B9@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
>
>I am currently using Linux and am just getting started with
>386BSD.  Question;
>
>  Will there be a future release, possibly the rumored 0.2?

Yes, when, ????

>  I see BSDI is announcing a new version of BSD386 ($1,069.00
>  I THINK).  Are 386BSD developers moving to the BSD386 camp, 
>  or will there be separate development work continued on 386BSD??

As one of the developers (??), and as a poor broke college student,
$1069 is about $900 more than I have to spend.  Speaking as myself,
I am going to do work in 386BSD, and not on BSD386.

BTW- 386BSD and BSD386 are two completely different products, with
differing goals.


Nate
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