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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: 386BSD-1.0 Vapouroid (was Re: FreeBSD versus Linux)
Date: 11 Aug 1994 07:44:12 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <jmonroyCuC9ut.1n8@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:
>Gary Udstrand (gbu@uhc.com) wrote:
>: I want to set up a sytem at home to run XFree and SLIP. I will be using this
>: more or less as a X terminal to connect to the computers at my office. Is
>: there any advantages/disadvantages between FreeBSD or Linux?
>:
> my recommondation is that you might wait a few weeks.
> 386BSD release 1.0 is scheduled to mail.
> That is to say, even as 386bsd is purported to be
> vaporware, Bill Jolitz is ready to deliver.
> What's in the package?
> I can't say, but I think the offering will be well recieved.
Come on Jesus. You've been making a huge noise about 386BSD-1.0 for
more than a month now, and the thing is still about as real as a quagga
standing in my back yard.
If you have something to say, do so, if 386BSD-1.0 is still vapourware,
wait until it really exists, available, so that people can get it.
Let us see release announcements etc. Then somebody may consider it as
an alternative to FreeBSD, Linux or NetBSD. At the moment, the latest
released version of 386BSD is version 0.1, which is not even supported
by its authors (the developers of FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux DO support
their work).
(Don't tell me that you have 386BSD-1.0 running on your computers -
that's about as useful to the avaerage user as the fact that some
people have FreeBSD-2.0 running on their machines -- FreeBSD-2.0 is of
no use (yet) to the average user who wants a free UN*X on his desk.)
Cheers,
Geoff.
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