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From: hafner@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de (Walter 'madhouse' Hafner)
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 06:51:16 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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In-reply-to: hwr@pilhuhn.de's message of 16 Aug 1995 10:56:35 +0200
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:800 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4756 comp.os.linux.advocacy:17239
>>On 16 Aug 1995 10:56:35 +0200, hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) said:
HWR> Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes:
>> This might have been true originally, but the first and formost reason
>> I don't use NetBSD is that I know nothing about it. In other words,
>> Advertising is the dominate reason.
HWR> Yes. A bit the same here - german computer magazines write about Linux
HWR> and give interviews with Liinus etc. But you don't see much about the
HWR> different BSDs. For Linux even rumours are printed ..
heh, heh ... since the (german?) SUSE-Linux distribution ships FreeBSD
on an additional CD-ROM I notice that most of the people who 'give
FreeBSD a try' out of curiosity keep it and dump Linux. So I just ask
myself if it would be a good approach to encourage all Linux vendors to
include a FreeBSD CD :-))
-Walter
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