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From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: anybody using Netbsd?
Date: 8 May 1993 00:38:21 -0400
Organization: Penn State, Laboratory for Elementary Particle Science
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In article <1993May6.153723.16314@cs.yale.edu> 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 :-)

I run it here for a prof.  I've love it, it's much better than Linux ....
I'm going to reboot it again and again!

But seriously, I love it.  It's really great.  I can't recommend it enough.
The NetBSD gang did a really great job (_except_ for the installation procedue,
but nobody's perfect :-) ).

--Ken