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From: thumper@netcom.com (Thumper!)
Subject: Re: ADVICE to ALL
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 18:31:46 GMT
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Jesus Monroy Jr (jmonroy@netcom.com) wrote:
:  
:     ADVICE TO ALL
: For all involved:
:     This week, the second week of November, 1994, marks the release
:     of three versions of very similar BSD-like UNIX-like Operation
:     Systems -- 386BSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD.

Uhm... I think the whole problem lies right there.  There's FreeBSD and
NetBSD are releasiong new versions, spawned from pretty darn decent
versions.

386BSD 1.0 is a highly delayed, near-vaporous "release" of an old alpha
PC-BSD operating system.  In the last 6 months, I don't think I've seen any
claims as to why it would even portend to be better than the much more
tested and proven FreeBSD and NetBSD.
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Thumper!                                                 thumper@netcom.com
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