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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:3065 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5048 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us!briggs From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: New newsgroups for 386 based or free unix Date: 24 Jan 1995 15:45:28 GMT Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3g37ao$ehc@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <lclee.51.000A72C9@lightside.com> <3g29sv$gip@nic.scruz.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us In article <3g29sv$gip@nic.scruz.net> banshee@boing.resort.com (John Vinopal) writes: >lclee@lightside.com (Larry Lee) writes: >> comp.os.unix.netbsd.* > >The systems are very similar for the most part and lots of things apply >to more than one. I don't think theres much of a need for more groups. >Set up your kill file if you don't want to see linux posts, etc. The 386bsd is very misleading for users of NetBSD and soon FreeBSD and Linux that aren't using the x86 processors. I, for instance, use the Macintosh and I know others that use the Amiga, Sun3, Sparc, DECstations, pc532s, etc. I expect that a number of those people pass these groups up because they have _386_bsd in the newsgroup name. Remember that *BSD and Linux run on more than the x86 machines. I agree that there is a lot of overlap between the FreeBSD and NetBSD crowds, though, and I wouldn't like to see them artificially seperated any further than they already are. There might also be some dissention over the use of the word "unix" to refer to the various freely available unix-like systems... ;-) -allen -- Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@vt.edu ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k **