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From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: IBM NetBSD mailing list?
Date: 12 Jun 1994 02:24:18 GMT
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In article <2tcdph$ns3@news.ysu.edu>, T. Caster <ah360@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:
>I just moved from Amiga's NetBSD port to the IBM one, and was wondering
>if there is a mailing list just for the IBM port?

If you're not already on the "netbsd-users" list, that would be a good place
to start.  There is also the "port-i386" list list for i386-specific
issues.  Send mail to majordomo@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu to subscribe.

If you want to preview the lists to see if they are appropriate for you,
connect to sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu via gopher and read the mailing list
archives for the list you're interested in.

>Also I just have .9 running and wonder if the best time to move to
>"-current" is just after the code freeze on NetBSD happens near the end
>of the month?  (ie  Will it be stable enought, esp. for X & networking?)

They hope ;)

Really it depends on how much work you're willing to do.  If you're lazy
you may prefer to run 0.9 until the 1.0 comes out in July.  I bet that 
things will look pretty good after the freeze, but last-minute fixes prior
to the release are probably inevitable.

--
Paul Southworth
CICNet Systems Support
pauls@cic.net