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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!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!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: 6 Sep 1995 03:32:28 GMT Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <42j4oc$m22@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <DDACyE.CBt@seas.ucla.edu> <40nj98$8g2@news.belwue.de> <40rhfu$bgb@wolfe.wimsey.com> <42gnib$8dg@kadath.zeitgeist.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:939 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5527 In article <42gnib$8dg@kadath.zeitgeist.net>, Amancio Hasty, Jr. <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote: >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? Wait. :-) Even when you've got only four or five machines to maintain, upgrading is a *very* big chore if several of these machines are expected to provide 24/7 service. A back-port may well be easier in many cases. 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.