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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!homer.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 14 Aug 1995 19:41:51 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <40o8tv$2sm@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <VIXIE.95Aug14011302@wisdom.home.vix.com> <40ng5m$tr@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:40ng5m$tr@sundog.tiac.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:721 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4307 comp.os.linux.advocacy:16018 Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote: >vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) wrote: >> >>NetBSD is quite popular among the folks who used raw 4BSD from CSRG and thought >>it was exactly what an operating system should be. >> >>FreeBSD and Linux are quite popular among the folks who used SCO or MiXinu >>and thought that operating systems ought not to be wizard-specific. > >This might have been true originally, but the first and formost reason >I don't use NetBSD is that I know nothing about it. In other words, >Advertising is the dominate reason. > Perhaps FreeBSD was more popular initially because of ease of installation and the kept up ports directory and packages. Frequent snapshots from I can remember when I ran NetBSD is that the second actual *release* took a long time of course anyone was welcomed at any given point during the fast development stages to take a snapshot of the development tree. Last but not least the FreeBSD folks seemed to be more *user* friendly than the NetBSD folks. -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046, Fax 415-495-3046, Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com