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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!news.moneng.mei.com!hookup!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!van-bc!vanbc.wimsey.com!cynic.portal.ca!curt From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 23 Aug 1995 23:01:18 GMT Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <41gbvu$2nu@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <40nj98$8g2@news.belwue.de> <40rhfu$bgb@wolfe.wimsey.com> <41cm9v$c9b@news.belwue.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:786 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4708 In article <41cm9v$c9b@news.belwue.de>, Markus Baeurle <s671687@rghx50.gp.fht-esslingen.de> wrote: >Unix is nothing for newbies and it probably never will be. But the people >who have a certain degree of experience with computers and who are interested >in the matter should get a chance to get it working, shouldn't they? >Without reading and, most difficult of all, understanding source code! >Otherwise, such a system will always be limited to the absolute gurus. Reading source code is hardly an `absolute guru' sort of thing. I'm not much of a coder at all (and certainly not competent to make more than minor changes to a kernel) and yet, after some practice, I can read well-written code fairly easily. cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.