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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!utciva!infnews!gnn From: gnn@cs.utwente.nl (George Neville-Neil) Subject: Re: anybody using Netbsd? Message-ID: <gnn.736760490@thecity> Sender: usenet@cs.utwente.nl Nntp-Posting-Host: sacramento.cs.utwente.nl Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science References: <1993May6.153723.16314@cs.yale.edu> Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 07:41:30 GMT Lines: 32 karage@scws0.ctstateu.edu (Angelos Karageorgiou Greek and Macedon the only combination) writes: > So I might be naive or something but are there people using >netbsd ? I mean I want/need a unix system after the hoopla between >386bsd and netbsd I am very confused as to the stability of either . > I read .os.linux and people there seem to do work using linux, >is netbsd at the same level or should I give it a couple of months to >stabilize ? I am a BSD man since the days of old SUNOSs and ULTRIXes >and I would really hate to go to the _other_ group :-) > Anybody want to enlighten me , and other lost souls , out here ? Hi, Yes there are people using NetBSD. I currently use it to write documents using LaTeX and Emacs (18.58) as well as to develop networking software on. It's a reasonably mature system as far as I can tell and what problems I have had have been solved by the very nice people at UC Berkeley (thanks Chris). It's a fully usable system IMHO. I run it on a Compaq Contura laptop with 8M RAM, 121M Conner hard drive. One of my co-workers runs the same machine with NetBSD and X and likes that as well. Later, George -- Once you get to 25 you can rent a car anywhere in the world, and nothing else matters. -- Max Rochlin