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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!jfinley From: jfinley@netcom.com (John Finley) Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ? Message-ID: <jfinleyD2B1EL.3F9@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <3etolp$2qr6@tiger2.ocs.lsu.edu> <D27p37.1E9@bonkers.taronga.com> <3f281t$3n4@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <D2At12.82@bonkers.taronga.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 18:15:56 GMT Lines: 20 Useless followup in a useless thread: The NetBSD and FreeBSD groups are volunteers. They do it because they like to whack Unix and don't like to sleep. (That's a compliment, I think.) So, if they have a couple of gangs of folks who work well together, and enjoy working with each other, then why should they want to mess with what they've got? Sure, they want more users, it appears, for their respective versions, but the overriding motivation must be building some neat software, and they're both doing that. You have to look at it from the developers' perspective, and be thankful that anyone is doing it at all. I ran NetBSD 0.9 for awhile, found it neato, and am now (trying to) run FreeBSD 2.0. I switched for no particular reason. John Finley jfinley@netcom.com