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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
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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.


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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