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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news5.ner.bbnplanet.net!news3.near.net!yale!yale!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 18 Aug 1995 16:03:24 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <412dkc$nml@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <40nj98$8g2@news.belwue.de> <40rpge$fta@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <40uuep$8jk@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:767 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4558 In article <40uuep$8jk@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de writes: > >This attitude totally leaves out all the Internet-impaired users. Well, how did the "Internet-impaired" users get it in the first place? >Just to set this straight: Walnut Creek has not added a single >package. That are _we_ who are doing it, with Satoshi Asami as the >portsmeister, and a bunch of people behind him interested in extending >the set of availabel easy-to-use software. Walnut Creek is happily >selling it, but they've neither invented the ports/package scheme, nor >are they going to do any actual work except marketing (and some >support). Mea culpa. I still maintain that NetBSD is currently just the OS, and to compare it against FreeBSD the package (or CD-ROM) is not really objective. _BUT_ I'm not interested in arguing about it. -Andrew -- ============================ Real 32bit multi-tasking UN*X System Andrew Gillham | TCP/IP,NFS,PPP,4.4BSD-lite,multi-user gillham@andrews.edu | i386,sparc,alpha,mac68k,amiga,others LAN/WAN/NW/UN*X specialist | ---> http://www.NetBSD.org <---