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From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 16 Aug 1995 10:56:35 +0200
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Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes:
>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.
Yes. A bit the same here - german computer magazines write about Linux
and give interviews with Liinus etc. But you don't see much about the
different BSDs. For Linux even rumours are printed ..
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Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 D-76131 Karlsruhe +49 721 9661524
" Das ist wie ein Telefonbuch -- viele Personen und wenig Handlung "
Prof. Deussen am 26.10.94 ueber die Syntax von PL1