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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!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Message-ID: <DDGEM7.395@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <40ohil$8rb@pandora.sdsu.edu> <DDD8FG.L0B@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <40t6tu$2cv@sundog.tiac.net> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:58:52 GMT Lines: 25 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:742 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4449 comp.os.linux.advocacy:16422 In article <40t6tu$2cv@sundog.tiac.net> Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes: >>The main reason *I* switched to FreeBSD (after running NetBSD 0.8 and >>0.9) was that they had more frequent releases. >If you really like frequent releases then perhaps you should switch >to the Linux 1.3.x experimental kernel series. I hear they release >new patches just about every night. I think you missed the point: I *don't* want daily releases. As someone else remarked, current+date identifies a NetBSD "release", but that's much too frequent. What I want are releases that are sufficiently frequent that you don't fall far behind current development, but sufficiently infrequent that many other people will be using exactly the same version. FreeBSD provides this. Please don't interpret this as a claim that FreeBSD is better than NetBSD (or Linux). It's just the main reason I switched, and I mentioned it to indicate that "marketing" wasn't (as claimed) the only reason that more people used FreeBSD than NetBSD. -- Richard -- "... we were extremely sceptical, like most people, about 'conspiracy theories of history' ..." - The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail