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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!network.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin09.info.win.tue.nl!wzv.win.tue.nl!gvr.win.tue.nl!guido From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? Date: 20 Apr 1993 17:39:58 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r1che$64r@wzv.win.tue.nl> References: <1qvpc9$1e8@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gvr.win.tue.nl Keywords: 386BSD, NetBSD, free, BSD, sleep I don't know what to think of this. I have a heavily modified 0.1 version running here, with *lots* of patches not in the patchkit. Just saying NetBSD is a modified 0.1 with patchkit 0.2.2 is not enough, I think. I need to know the exact differences between it and 386bsd. I just don't have enough space to install both systems. I am also not going to just throw away a stable system. I think many ppl., like me, will have this feeling. Whenever a new patchkit comes out, it's relatively easy just to look which patches you already applied, were covered by it. Isn't it possible to put into some README: 1) What is completely new. 2) What exactly the diffs are between 0.1+patchkit 0.2.3 (note the 3) and NeTBSD 3) Other changes that are important. Note that I like the idea of NetBSD very much. I just think many ppl. will hesitate installing it without having an exact notion of what they will get back. -Guido -- Guido van Rooij | Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Bisschopsmolen 16 | Phone: ++31.40.461433 5612 DS Eindhoven | ((12+144+20)+3*sqrt(4))/7 The Netherlands | +(5*11)=9^2+0