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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Message-ID: <DDD8FG.L0B@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <40ohil$8rb@pandora.sdsu.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 18:52:26 GMT Lines: 20 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:723 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4320 comp.os.linux.advocacy:16058 In article <40ohil$8rb@pandora.sdsu.edu> larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) writes: >> I'm posting this message to all appropriate newsgroups. I'm interested in >> hearing what makes FreeBSD and Linux much more popular than NetBSD. >Marketing. Well, partly perhaps. The main reason *I* switched to FreeBSD (after running NetBSD 0.8 and 0.9) was that they had more frequent releases. Now of course you can run NetBSD-current, but the regular(ish) numbered releases of FreeBSD means that many other people are running the very same version as you, so you're much more likely to find someone who's solved your problem or who has built some piece of software for the version you're running. -- Richard -- "... we were extremely sceptical, like most people, about 'conspiracy theories of history' ..." - The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail