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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: What's "FreeBSD"? Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 19:33:14 GMT Message-ID: <CAsEBG.4tC@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <22up8o$pvb@introl.introl.com> <22ut4j$53o@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <explorer.743637064@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> Lines: 27 In article <explorer.743637064@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff) writes: > What?!? Another damn choice? Jesus folk, why not put these attitudes in the > bottom drawer and leave them there! What attitudes? > I see advantages to NetBSD. I see some promised advantages to 0.2. NetBSD is great if you're on the Internet and can pick up -current on an ongoing basis. Otherwise you can't run fast enough to keep up. I see it is a grand experiment, and a great "source of all good bits", but it's not something I'd want to depend on. 0.2 is still vapor. Scary vapor... since the kernel interfaces are being changed radically, so there's no guarantee existing drivers will continue to work. I'll be happy to pick it up when it's gone through a few cycles and is stable again. FreeBSD is supposed to be what I thought NetBSD would be: an open stabilised release of 0.1 with an ongoing formal release schedule. It's still vapor, but it doesn't have the added FUD of a whole passel of new interfaces. It's picking up stuff from NetBSD as it goes, too. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Hefur thu fadhmadh ulfinn i dag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."