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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!gomel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!andreas From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: "386bsd 1.0" - more information Date: 12 Jun 1994 15:36:59 GMT Organization: @ $HOME, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 48 Message-ID: <2tfa3d$fk@knobel.knirsch.de> References: <3117@adagio.lemis.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.knirsch.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.uucp) wrote: : I've just received the July issue of the German magazine c't, in which : I find a small article by Juergen Fey. Juergen is a friend of Bill : Jolitz and was responsible for the translation of Bill's 386bsd : articles into German and their printing in UNIXMagazin, of which he : was the editor. UNIXMagazin is now dead, and Juergen seems to work for : the erstwhile competitor, iX. I think I'll buy the July issue of C't just because of this article :) : 1. 386BSD Release 1.0 is about to be released, two years after the : completion (German "Fertigstellung") of 386BSD 0.1, which will put : an end to the plethora of "wild" BSD versions (NetBSD, FreeBSD and : so on). In cooperation with Dr. Dobbs, a bootable "Reference : CD-ROM" is currently being completed. Wild, wild life ;-) If this is really the case, then I can't resist to flame Mr. Fey a bit since I think in this context he put's a bad light on the most valuable work of many *BSD developers who made *BSD useable. I think without this work it's no question that eveybody would have selected Linux as *the* free Unix system. As we all know 386BSD had it's beauty, but what count's more in this context, it's bugs ;-) : This gives me the feeling that this is not really a boot from : CD-ROM at all--you first need to boot DOS, and then you can use a : DOS bootstrap to boot from the CD-ROM. Nice idea, but not nearly as : clever as what we have so far been led to believe. What do you do, if you don't have DOS ? : 4. Apart from the "official" version on CD-ROM, a system without most : of the documentation, consisting of sources and binaries, will be : offered on the Internet. Very fine :( so the people who want everything *have to* buy the CD-Rom. Version. Clever ! Sounds strange since as far as I know commercial behaviour was the reason for the *fights* between William Jolitz and BSDI. William seperated itself from the rest of the developers since he wanted to make a free OS. Ok, no doubt about it, 386BSD 1.0 comes with sources and binaries .... But nevertheless it sounds a bit strange. Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/ andreas@wupmon.wup.de (Unix Support)