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From: mark@dukat.mark.nfr.com (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is NetBSD alive?
Date: 29 May 1997 23:01:46 -0400
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In article <01bc6c60$f76eb860$5f030514@yosemite>,
Dave Schaumann <dschauma@csci.csc.com> wrote:
>
>However, I find the lack of traffic in this group troubling.
>Are the other *BSD variants so much better?  Or is NetBSD
>so wonderfully easy to use that no one ever finds occasion
>to post anything about it?

I am perfectly happy with Netbsd.  I virtually never post anything
because I don't have much of anything to say about it.  It just works.
[ Well, except for my problem with a 3c590 hanging when I send data
through it... :) ]

Over the years, I think I've seen some trends in the user communities
of the systems.  For example, a great advantage of Freebsd is supposedly
that it is so easy to install.  I think that people that find that appealing
end up on Freebsd, where people like me look at the Netbsd install
and say "but what's hard about that?"

It's only an example, but it is illustrative.  If you're a hard core Unix
geek from the days when Unix was identified by editions instead of versions,
you probably don't have much need to post questions. :)  Or if you
do, maybe you're in some more specific newsgroup.  (e.g. If I wanted to
talk about a sendmail problem, I wouldn't do it here.)

-- 
Mark Sienkiewicz
Network Flight Recorder, Inc.