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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!129.49.12.170!news.cc.sunysb.edu!cshapiro From: cshapiro@ic.sunsyb.edu (Carl S Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Is NetBSD alive? Date: 5 Jun 1997 19:27:14 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5n73ui$lu$1@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> References: <01bc6c60$f76eb860$5f030514@yosemite> <EB670F.Frx@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <5n1l6v$lln@panix2.panix.com> <5n6cde$l4@hoopoe.psc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.cc.sunysb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6075 Peter Berger (peterb@hoopoe.psc.edu) wrote: [...] : Uh, gee. This sounds like why NetBSD supports DECstations, to me. I think that statement was a little bit i386 specific... the preceeding sentances kind of give it away: > Certainly we have a smaller user community than FreeBSD. We don't go out of > our way to bend MI abstractions to fit the i386 -- never really have; FreeBSD > is better about this now, but they haven't always been -- and thousands of > device drivers for Neato Keen Stuff isn't a top priority, either. So you'll > find less i386 NetBSD users than FreeBSD users, because many users don't care > about clean machine-independent abstractions, and many users also seem to have > this funny desire to have support for their wacky, already-paid-for hardware, > even if that support doesn't always work 100%, rather than to build machines > just to run NetBSD, even if they'd perform better and wouldn't cost any, or > much, more. Carl