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From: gnn@cs.utwente.nl (George Neville-Neil)
Subject: Re: anybody using Netbsd?
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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

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