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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2176 ; Fri, 26 Feb 93 17:31:24 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!network.ucsd.edu!sdcc12!icogsci1!cg18fbi From: cg18fbi@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Richard Dante) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386BSD Posix Compliance Message-ID: <45636@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: 25 Feb 93 09:56:37 GMT References: <1me016$4j8@agate.berkeley.edu> <C2z38u.3BA@panix.com> <1993Feb25.080612.16553@gmd.de> Sender: news@sdcc12.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 42 Nntp-Posting-Host: icogsci1.ucsd.edu In article <1993Feb25.080612.16553@gmd.de> veit@fanoe.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Holger Veit) writes: >In article <C2z38u.3BA@panix.com>, tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes: >|> In article <1me016$4j8@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes: >|> >Just to reassure people, 386BSD will remain POSIX compliant. >|> >Extensions to the system are "experimental" and will be justified >|> >over time. >|> > >|> >However, 386BSD development remains focussed on novel research and .... >|> hurts _us_, part of your user base, as much as it might hurt the >|> commercial vendors. I know you work very hard and am sure you put a lot ... >you are not forced to do the same (see /usr/src/bin/ls/ls.c). > >This "threatening incompatibility" in the future of 386bsd, seen in the light, is >no reason for general panic. > >Holger > >|> Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM I second Holger. I wanted to reply earlier but my login was screwed... Thor, 0.1 has a lot of good patches and more are likely to come. When 0.2 comes along if it's not your cup of tea, nobody's stopping you from sticking with 0.1 with all it's patches which is a perfectly fine system (if it weren't would you or I be bothering with it?) If you really think things are going to be so bad with 0.2 (I myself have a little more faith in the Jolitz') then do like DOS users did when 4.0 came out. Stick with 3.3 and like it (at least until 5.0 comes out >:-) ) Now if 0.2 turns out to not be a clear cut upgrade for everybody, at the risk of getting flamed for possible naughtiness I offer the following late night analogy (I AM after all a cognitive science major ;) You meet a mature woman and after attending n-operas you discover she has sexy daughter. Take yer pick. (Flames to /dev/null. If Oprah can use it for a show, I can use it for a post) Rick Dante