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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!boulder!news.coop.net!village.org!not-for-mail From: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 17 Aug 1995 02:36:24 -0600 Organization: The Village Lines: 27 Message-ID: <40uv28$bku@rover.village.org> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <40u48b$1a2@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rover.village.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:707 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4239 In article <40u48b$1a2@agate.berkeley.edu>, Steven Grady <grady@xcf.berkeley.edu> wrote: >The reason I run FreeBSD is that I was working with Jordan Hubbard at >the time the NetBSD/FreeBSD split occurred. By I suspect that particular >reason doesn't account for more than a fraction of the FreeBSD users.. >(Hi Damian!) Well, the truth be told, I'm running because of Jordan. He was a customer of ours. He wanted our product ported to FreeBSD, since I had ported it to Linux. So I shipped him a hard disk, and he sent it back to me with FreeBSD 1.0 ALPHA (or BETA) on it. Since then, I've kept upgrading and now have at least four FreeBSD boxes that I'm responsible for them running FreeBSD. I was actually running Linux at the time. I found that FreeBSD's SLIP code was light years ahead of the then current Linux networking code (never mind SLIP) so I started using FreeBSD to get email at home. It wasn't long before I helped start the village, based on FreeBSD machines (well, and a Sun 3/60, later a Solbourne S4000). It is a small world. Warner -- Warner Losh "VMS Forever" home: imp@village.org Cyberspace Development, Inc work: imp@marketplace.com Makers of TIA, The Internet Adapter. http://marketplace.com/