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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: 386BSD-1.0 Vapouroid (was Re: FreeBSD versus Linux) Message-ID: <jmonroyCuDDAu.5nx@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <gbu.35.001F725F@uhc.com> <jmonroyCuC9ut.1n8@netcom.com> <32cksc$si7@quagga.ru.ac.za> <murray.54.2E49E275@its.uct.ac.za> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 11:59:17 GMT Lines: 63 Mark Murray (murray@its.uct.ac.za) wrote: : In article <32cksc$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. : Essentially everthing is correct. : This is advertising? : No, it's called marketing... well to the bait. : 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. : Yes, I agree. I hear ammana is now into toaster-ovens. : If JMJr offers something, buy the London Bridge first. : Why?!? I got it for sale at half-off this week. Especially if you, got an OS that dumps core twice-a-day. : My R0.02 : Sorry, the present exchange rate says you still own a buck-and-a-half. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________