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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1354 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6430 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: WILL ???BSD DIE? Date: 2 Nov 1993 23:12:55 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 47 Message-ID: <2b6phn$q5m@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <jmonroyCFv39C.Iv1@netcom.com> <2b6i6f$t2u@pith.uoregon.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <2b6i6f$t2u@pith.uoregon.edu>, Mike Mike Hoffman <mike@scrooge.uoregon.edu> wrote: >PRO >1. I like 386BSD . It works for me. I have had little or no problems with it. > (once I got it installed) Great, then stick with it. I don't see why you think that you are being told to not use it. The post by CHris merely asserted the following: Given that there are better and more useful upgrades available for it, and that space is needed on agate, it's probably best to remove 386bsd 0.1 and encourage poeple to either get the stuff elsewhere or move up to FreeBSD or NetBSD >CON >1. It does take a lot of hard disk space. NetBSD now has shared libs. You will also note that these systems come with a HELL of a lot of stuff, much of which linux is missing and thus are slightly larger. >2. It attracts people who bitch and complain alot. Linux attarcts zealots who seem to have a hard time accepting that people might not want to use it. I'd prefer a little bickering amongst intelligent people. >I will be sorry to see 386BSD go. The departure does provide incentive >to move on... to where: FreeBSD, LINUX ????? WHy NOT? If FreeBSD were called 386bsd 0.1.5, or 0.2, NOBODY would be bitching about this. But because it's not, it's the DEATH of 386BSD? If anything, look at how well NetBSD is doing, and how many machines it now works on . I'd say that 386BSD has been a DAMN good thing. Toodlepip! Marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--