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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!snert!not-4-mail From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 16 Aug 1995 11:00:46 +0200 Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn Lines: 14 Message-ID: <40sc3u$5oh@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <40ohil$8rb@pandora.sdsu.edu> <DDD8FG.L0B@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pilhuhn.de richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >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 Hm, I am running NetBSD1.0 here which is rock stable - I don't want to reinstall every few days. I installed the 6 patches which came out a few days after release and since then I did no patching etc. It just works. -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 D-76131 Karlsruhe +49 721 9661524 " Das ist wie ein Telefonbuch -- viele Personen und wenig Handlung " Prof. Deussen am 26.10.94 ueber die Syntax von PL1