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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!dorite!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Message-ID: <40n2im$37n@dyson.iquest.net> Lines: 20 Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <VIXIE.95Aug14011302@wisdom.home.vix.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:47:18 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:712 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4262 comp.os.linux.advocacy:15937 In article <VIXIE.95Aug14011302@wisdom.home.vix.com>, Paul A Vixie <vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com> wrote: >> I'm posting this message to all appropriate newsgroups. I'm >>interested in hearing what makes FreeBSD and Linux much more popular than >>NetBSD. > >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. Very interesting... That analysis is quite correct since I came from an SVRx background!!! Since almost every SVRx(2<=4) was practically a totally different OS, I guess that FreeBSD is SVR5 :-) ? (I don't know who I am insulting: SVRx or FreeBSD :-).) John dyson@freebsd.org