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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 5 Sep 1995 05:35:07 GMT Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <42gnib$8dg@kadath.zeitgeist.net> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <VIXIE.95Aug14011302@wisdom.home.vix.com> <40nj98$8g2@news.belwue.de> <40rhfu$bgb@wolfe.wimsey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:40rhfu$bgb@wolfe.wimsey.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:918 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5401 curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) wrote: >Another person mentioned that one of the reasons he went with >FreeBSD was that there were upgrades more often. This may be fine >for personal systems, but there are circumstances in which frequent Well, you sort have a point since if you want to keep your base level system you can because you have the entire source directory. Now lets suppose that you want to develop software and that from time to time you need to port an ancillary package which happens to be well supported with the current OS version but not in the previous. What do you then? -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD