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From: bmullane@pluto.njcc.com (Brian Mullaney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: ADVICE to ALL
Date: 15 Nov 1994 21:43:08 -0500
Organization: New Jersey Computer Connection, Lawrenceville, NJ
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jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:

>    a real disregard for professionalism.

I suppose your post is a prime example of professionalism?

> 
>Why am I making this post?
>    I am making this post in an effort to move ahead with the work
>    at hand -- but sure as not, this article will be followed a long

Its nice to see that the 'work at hand' involves bad-mouthing every other 
free version of *BSD, while not telling everyone why to get 386bsd over 
them- could it be that it has nothing to offer over [Free,Net]BSD?

>    Claims will be made that each version is stable, great and will
>    definitely run on your system.  That statement, that "all will work

Of course, they do run better then 386bsd 1.0, since nobody has it yet

>    in the days when I started.  The week is not even over and patches
>    are available for those OSs available via ftp sites.

And if you can find an ftp site that contains out-of-date files, you can 
find all the 386bsd 0.x patches, which tells me something about the base 
386bsd code

>    They're on the run, they don't have a clue as to how to write
>    decent code and the predictions I've made in the past about the

I'm sure that some of the people who contribute to [Net,Free]BSD will be 
amazed to find out that they 'don't have a clue how to write decent code'
 
>    If you must install a UNIX-like system TODAY, try LINUX, Minix or OS/2.

i think that its kind of funny that you don't recommend the new version 
of 386bsd- is there something wrong with it?

Of course, not knowing the difference between UNIX and OS/2 says alot 
about your knowledge of OS's

Brian

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         Brian Mullaney  | NRA  N-SSA | bmullane@pluto.njcc.com