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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!news-rocq.inria.fr!news2.EUnet.fr!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU!grady From: grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Grady) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 17 Aug 1995 00:58:51 GMT Organization: Experimental Computing Facility, UC Berkeley Lines: 15 Message-ID: <40u48b$1a2@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> Reply-To: grady@xcf.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: scam.xcf.berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:763 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4540 comp.os.linux.advocacy:16754 jerijian@typhoon.seas.ucla.edu (Arthur D. Jerijian) writes: >Hi, > I'm posting this message to all appropriate newsgroups. I'm >interested in hearing what makes FreeBSD and Linux much more popular than >NetBSD. 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!) -- Steven "I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so please, why don't you return to your porch rockers and resume whittling?"