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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5114 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1014 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 must die ( was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD etc.) Message-ID: <hastyCDD9t2.7IG@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <hastyCD8A1E.9AA@netcom.com> <1993Sep13.121342.3732@cm.cf.ac.uk> <2756of$73g@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 23:12:37 GMT Lines: 81 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. > >Consider this typical scenario- > > Somebody hears about 386bsd, maybe at a party, maybe from a back > issue of DDJ, maybe it was a few months ago, but now's the time > to check it out. > > % archie 386bsd > >>tons of archive sites reported<< > > % Pnews > Subject: I can't get 386bsd 0.1 to work... > >If you are an archive operator, at least put a note in the 386bsd tree >that points out that it is obsolete and directs people to Netbsd and Freebsd. >If you know an archive operator, please pass the word along. > Not bad, Now the next step, someone should publish a paper to a magazine such as Byte or Unix World and describe what NetBSD and FreeBSD represents along with very detail information on how to install the packages. For instance, "It is beyond the scope of this document to tell you how to use the dd command", is not a very good instruction for the Unix beginer. Also, I don't know if this is a local phenomena but the San Francisco newspaper, San Francisco Chronicles are publishing more and more technical issues in the business sections -- other major newspapers may have a computing section Do you show off the strenght of the X distribution including XS3. If someone tells me that I can have the same of better graphics performance than a sparc 2 and at higher resolution, you bet I am going to pay attention. Disk thruput is another big one, details on how to achieve the 1.44mb disk thruput or higher being observed over at sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu will help a lot specially if the cdrom installation can fine tune the file system for you. Along with a very long list of currently ported applications available in the cdrom. Several months ago, on one of the popular Unix magazines there was a whole article about Linux and how to installed it. If we anchor the article with an address of where to get the cdrom distribution and of course a few ftp sites it will be like icing on a cake. How hard is this do? Not hard, just elaborate a bit more on the current installation notes and mailed it :-) Good Luck, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming