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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd?
Date: 20 Apr 1993 17:39:58 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Keywords: 386BSD, NetBSD, free, BSD, sleep

I don't know what to think of this. I have a heavily modified 0.1
version running here, with *lots* of patches not in the patchkit.
Just saying NetBSD is a modified 0.1 with patchkit 0.2.2 is not
enough, I think. I need to know the exact differences between it
and 386bsd. I just don't have enough space to install both systems.
I am also not going to just throw away a stable system. 
I think many ppl., like me, will have this feeling. Whenever a
new patchkit comes out, it's relatively easy just to look which
patches you already applied, were covered by it.
Isn't it possible to put into some README:
1) What is completely new.
2) What exactly the diffs are between 0.1+patchkit 0.2.3 (note the 3)
   and NeTBSD
3) Other changes that are important.

Note that I like the idea of NetBSD very much. I just think many ppl.
will hesitate installing it without having an exact notion of what
they will get back.

-Guido
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