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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5116 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1016 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!sitka.triumf.ca!felawka From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 must die ( was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD etc.) Date: 15 Sep 1993 05:30:47 GMT Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2769a7$knq@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <hastyCD8A1E.9AA@netcom.com> <1993Sep13.121342.3732@cm.cf.ac.uk> <2756of$73g@umd5.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sitka.triumf.ca In article <2756of$73g@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >>>386bsd-0.1 >>>386bsd-0.1 + random patches >>>386bsd-0.1 + patchkit >> >>Well, let's face it, with FreeBSD and NetBSD now out there I think we should >>forget about 0.1 and any patches that go with it. Even Bill doesn't think 0.1 >>is in a fit state to be usable and the patchkit mechanism, while it it >>served us well for a while, should now be quickly forgotten about. > >The way to make this happen is to remove it from the archive sites. Oh, kind Sir .. please don't! I found the 386bsd binaries very useful for bringing up FreeBSD when it first came out. I used goodies like mread, kermit, cksum (the FreeBSD version seems to use a different algorithm), emacs, tcsh and so on. Ahh, binary compatibilty is a wonderful thing! Larry F.