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From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: "386bsd 1.0" - more information
Date: 15 Jun 1994 09:30:56 GMT
Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
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Message-ID: <2tmhog$fk7@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
References: <3117@adagio.lemis.uucp> <5s1OHxP.dysonj@delphi.com> <3118@adagio.lemis.uucp>
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In article <3118@adagio.lemis.uucp> grog@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey) writes:
>In article <5s1OHxP.dysonj@delphi.com> dysonj@delphi.com (John Dyson) writes:
>>Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.uucp> writes:
>>
>>>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.
>[...]
>
>>This is not really meant as a flame, but just my offense at the magazine for
>>giving a value judgement like this...
>
>Well, I suppose a bit more information is in order here. As I
>mentioned in my original posting, Juergen Fey is a friend of the
>Jolitz', which puts him in somewhat exclusive company. In the
>1991/1992 timeframe, as the editor of UNIXMagazin, he published a
>whole lot of statements about 386bsd which in my considered opinion
>were inflammatory nonsense. It's not completely clear what his job is
>now:
>[...]
>iX is, (again in my considered opinion) is only slightly more
>professional than UNIXmagazin. I used to write technical articles for
>them, and gave it up because it seemed to be a perpetual fight to get
>them to print an objective viewpoint: they kept changing my texts to
>reflect what is presumably their political direction.
Thanks for letting us know this. I had always suspected as much; it
is good to hear this confirmed from an inside viewpoint.
>On the other hand, (and to show that I don't think *every* magazine is
>bad) c't magazine is one of the best magazines I have seen around.
Agreed. But this recent iX fuckup is just one more in a long
tradition of writing complete bs about bsd [no :-) here]. When one
considers the fact that the publisher who owns c't and iX is one of
the largest German sellers of Linux, the picture comes into focus.
Can you say slander of perceived competition? Ah knew ya could...
-- Volker
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