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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!barrnet.net!Reason.cdrom.com!news.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0a install: Yuck! Date: 18 Nov 1994 02:59:33 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Nov17185933@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <3adv8i$dqh@Germany.EU.net> <JKH.94Nov17074241@freefall.cdrom.com> <3aggef$br1@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: scottl@ix.netcom.com's message of 17 Nov 1994 21:03:11 GMT In article <3aggef$br1@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> scottl@ix.netcom.com (scott long) writes: This brings up a question in my mind.... I remember about 1 to 1 1/2 years ago when 386bsd split up into NetBSD / FreeBSD hearing someone say that NetBSD was the radical, experimental operating system for experts and gurus only, while FreeBSD would be more sane and conservative OS. Maybe I'm wrong, but this seems to be reversed. Could someone refresh me on the differences? Thanks. 1. We're talking about an ALPHA release here. I shouldn't need to explain what the word "ALPHA" means in regard to a software release. 2. If anything, the poster was complaining that the installation was trying too hard to hold his hand (or other bodily part). I'd say that this is entirely consistant with our "not just for experts" philosophy. Ok, so we fully intend to have an "expert mode" as well, but this was (again) ALPHA code. Jordan