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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5213 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1060 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!kite.med.monash.edu.au!jon From: jon@kite.med.monash.edu.au (Jon Hilton) Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 must die ( was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD etc.) Message-ID: <jon.748483306@kite.med.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system) Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia. References: <2769a7$knq@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <27fqlb$knq@eddie.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 00:01:32 GMT Lines: 38 shawn@eddie.mit.edu (Shawn F. Mckay) writes: >I can only speak for myself, but I find 386BSD 0.1 (PK 0.2.4) >to be *VERY* stable. Some folks like to tinker, but dont like >the idea that one day it may all just BLOW UP / STOP WORKING. I agree, I also use 386BSD PK 0.2.4 >Although I see little mail about 386bsd, I see LOTS of people >complaining about NetBSD, or FeeBSD for one reason or another. Also true - I'm waiting for some of the dust to settle >Its all well and good to be "developing" an operating system, but >there should be something around for folks like me who like to >have a reasonable "development" system, while still actully >USING the O/S. Absolutely - and I think that your wishes will be fulfilled. >I look forward to 386bsd 1.0 when it is released. And have >hopes it will be as stable as 0.1/0.2.4 has proven to be. Do you mean 0.2? Remember what 0.1 was like BEFORE the patchkits? Remember also that many of the kind folk who worked on the patchkits are also involved in one (or both?) of the netBSD/FreeBSD efforts. Just my $2/100 > - Shawn -Jon -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Hilton, 536 Tooronga Road, East Hawthorn, Victoria, 3123 Phone/Fax : 61+(0)3 882 9643 EMail: jon@kite.med.monash.edu.au