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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 14 Aug 1995 12:39:18 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Lines: 20 Message-ID: <40ng5m$tr@sundog.tiac.net> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <VIXIE.95Aug14011302@wisdom.home.vix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:689 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4141 comp.os.linux.advocacy:15600 vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) wrote: > >NetBSD is quite popular among the folks who used raw 4BSD from CSRG and thought >it was exactly what an operating system should be. > >FreeBSD and Linux are quite popular among the folks who used SCO or MiXinu >and thought that operating systems ought not to be wizard-specific. This might have been true originally, but the first and formost reason I don't use NetBSD is that I know nothing about it. In other words, Advertising is the dominate reason. -- Sphere. Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Free UNIX!