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From: giles@nemeton.com.au (Giles Lean)
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Organization: Nemeton Pty. Ltd.
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 09:49:17 GMT
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curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:

>I'll agree that the user side of NetBSD is definitely not as
>friendly. ... For example, due to
>something interesting the kernel (I am still undecided as to whether
>to call it a bug or not) the stock uucp as distributed with NetBSD
>1.0 doesn't work.

I don't think I understand -- I've been using it since 1.0 was
released, without more than the usual amount of phone line/modem/serial
comms problems, and have not patched anything.

About the 1.0 release some tty bugs were chased out that had made
life interesting, but the fixes were in the release.

Giles

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