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From: bet@ritz.mordor.com (Bennett Todd)
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <VIXIE.95Aug14011302@wisdom.home.vix.com> <40ng5m$tr@sundog.tiac.net> <40o8tv$2sm@kadath.zeitgeist.net>
Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:50:00 GMT
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The reason I tried FreeBSD rather than NetBSD is that from what I heard, it
has more platform-dependant tuning making it perform better on the PC. I
haven't done my own testing to attempt to confirm this hearsay, but it does
seem to run really, really well.

-Bennett
bet@mordor.com