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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indy.net!usenet From: Jason Miller <jason@indy.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 26 Aug 1995 03:21:50 GMT Organization: IndyNet - Indys Internet Gateway (info@indy.net) Lines: 27 Message-ID: <41m40e$t5u@news.indy.net> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <40rpge$fta@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <40uuep$8jk@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <412dkc$nml@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <419nbv$qdj@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip155.slip.indy.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:419nbv$qdj@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:900 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5271 >I've also given many tapes of it away. Mostly to users that might >have a `light' Internet access (often restricted to mail only), but >who would be unable to suck every damn piece of software by FTP of >their own. The package scenario does well fit for them. I am a high school student, "not a geek" (well, not a "traditional" one at that, I have life outside UNIX), a sophisticated Internet user who has, among other things, set up FreeBSD-based WWW and FTP servers, using httpd, ftpd, and Netscape's server. I am also a Mac user who has dabbled in MacTCP (now OT) programming. I understand the Internet, I love it, but I think WC's CD-ROMs are worth it. I hold a subscription to the FreeBSD CD, and for $30 every six months, I get the latest release on a mountable, random-access medium, that is much faster than my 28.8K PPP connection (or even an ISDN connection, for that matter). Many FreeBSD users simply cannot afford the fractional-T1 access you'd need to pull hundreds of megabytes of programs from the Internet in a sane amount of time. Besides, I share my BSD disc with several friends (one of the great things about free software!), and think the support WC has given to FreeBSD makes it worth my while to support them. -Jason Miller "Never, under any circumstances, try to write C++ code while stoned (I can handle C, at least vanilla ANSI...)" -Jason's Guide to Killing Brain Cells in the Information Age