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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!hotflexi.its.uct.ac.za!murray From: murray@its.uct.ac.za (Mark Murray) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: 386BSD-1.0 Vapouroid (was Re: FreeBSD versus Linux) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 08:33:57 GMT Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 50 Message-ID: <murray.54.2E49E275@its.uct.ac.za> References: <gbu.35.001F725F@uhc.com> <jmonroyCuC9ut.1n8@netcom.com> <32cksc$si7@quagga.ru.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.158.131.87 In article <32cksc$si7@quagga.ru.ac.za> csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes: >From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) >Subject: 386BSD-1.0 Vapouroid (was Re: FreeBSD versus Linux) >Date: 11 Aug 1994 07:44:12 GMT >In <jmonroyCuC9ut.1n8@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: >>Gary Udstrand (gbu@uhc.com) wrote: >>: I want to set up a sytem at home to run XFree and SLIP. I will be using this >>: more or less as a X terminal to connect to the computers at my office. Is >>: there any advantages/disadvantages between FreeBSD or Linux? >>: >> my recommondation is that you might wait a few weeks. >> 386BSD release 1.0 is scheduled to mail. >> That is to say, even as 386bsd is purported to be >> vaporware, Bill Jolitz is ready to deliver. >> What's in the package? >> I can't say, but I think the offering will be well recieved. >Come on Jesus. You've been making a huge noise about 386BSD-1.0 for >more than a month now, and the thing is still about as real as a quagga >standing in my back yard. >If you have something to say, do so, if 386BSD-1.0 is still vapourware, >wait until it really exists, available, so that people can get it. Lets get this straight; Jesus want this person to wait for "a few weeks" for 386BSD. This has not been officially announced in any form, except for some "reference CD" that _apparently_ had 0.1 on it, plus a whole lot of contributed documentation. After the resultant flamewar, I seem to recall that the technical details of this thing were just not available. This is advertising? My advice to anyone who wants to buy anything: Buy what is available NOW. Get what is supported, what is tested and what is active. If JMJr offers something, buy the London Bridge first. My R0.02 M -- Mark Murray (ITS/MURRAY) \+/ Internet: murray@ucthpx.uct.ac.za User support services +X+ Voice: +27 21 650 3025 Information Technology Services, /+\ This .sig is umop ap!sdn University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa