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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!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: 16 Aug 1995 16:38:22 GMT Organization: Elision Lines: 24 Message-ID: <40t6tu$2cv@sundog.tiac.net> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <40ohil$8rb@pandora.sdsu.edu> <DDD8FG.L0B@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> 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:760 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4533 comp.os.linux.advocacy:16701 richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: > >The main reason *I* switched to FreeBSD (after running NetBSD 0.8 and >0.9) was that they had more frequent releases. Now of course you can >run NetBSD-current, but the regular(ish) numbered releases of FreeBSD >means that many other people are running the very same version as you, >so you're much more likely to find someone who's solved your problem >or who has built some piece of software for the version you're >running. > If you really like frequent releases then perhaps you should switch to the Linux 1.3.x experimental kernel series. I hear they release new patches just about every night. (I'll stick with 1.2.x for now myself -- I've still got of catching up to do before I'll have anything to add at the kernel level.:) -- Jim Williams. Find a Linux/GNU User Group near you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/