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Xref: sserve comp.os.mach:3398 comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:4122 comp.os.linux.development:2444 comp.os.minix:22887 comp.periphs:4563 comp.unix.bsd:12850 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:4831 comp.os.386bsd.development:1372 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1700 comp.os.386bsd.apps:615 comp.os.386bsd.questions:6441 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1361 Newsgroups: comp.os.mach,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.minix,comp.periphs,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Subject: Re: WILL ???BSD DIE? Message-ID: <CFwwFA.7p8@autelca.ascom.ch> Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland References: <jmonroyCFv39C.Iv1@netcom.com> <2b5me2$c3d@jake.micromuse.co.uk> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 10:42:45 GMT Lines: 45 peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy) writes: >In article <jmonroyCFv39C.Iv1@netcom.com>, jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: >+ >> Barring serious objections, the 386BSD FTP Site on agate.berkeley.edu >+ >> will be disappearing on December 1, 1993. >+ >> >+ You must be kidding. Please define a "serious objection". >No one installs this from scratch anymore... fact. Are you sure ? They (a company in the states, I don't remember their name, but a friend of mine told me, yesterday) are still shipping the Linux CD-ROM including 386BSD ! They say: CD-ROM release "September 1993" ! On the CD-ROM there is talk about the "Tiny BSD" floppy, etc. pp. So, my friend did ask me where to get this floppy disk, yesterday ! So, why did they put this DEAD OS on the CD-ROM ? Just because there was space left on it ? But, without trying to think about the other OS's like FreeBSD and NetBSD ? I told my friend to keep-off of the 386BSD stuff on the disk. The problem is, getting the other *BSD OS's is not as easy, yet, especially in Europe. OK, I agree to remove the 386BSD stuff from agate... if the space is used for the newer and much more stable versions of the OS's I mentioned above. On the other hand, I am running 386BSD even without the latest patch kit and have no problems. That's why I am still running it. I am doing development with X11R5 now and I don't want to spend another week just to get almost the same development environment back that I have now. I will switch to FreeBSD or NetBSD whichever is around at the time I will do the switch. For now, I can't decide whether I want better serial drivers for my high-speed modem (pro FreeBSD) or use wabi (which might run on NetBSD, first) and other BSD 4.4 related software (pro NetBSD). Just my two cents worth to this strange series of articles. I did use agate... in the past to get some files. Now, I won't use it anymore to get files for 386BSD. Either I have all files I need or I will switch to a newer OS. Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt