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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!kithrup!sef
From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Catch What They're Saying About Us...
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 02:18:13 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Sep25.021813.2369@kithrup.COM>
References: <19oe23INNqh0@agate.berkeley.edu> <VIXIE.92Sep23102423@cognition.pa.dec.com> <19ta0nINNj2q@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <19ta0nINNj2q@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
(Actually, it's Lynne.)
>BSDi, on the other hand, is probably the most adversely impacted by
>both 386BSD software activities and Careware charity activities.

BSDi is actually benefited, to some degree, by 386BSD.  BSD/386 is stabler,
better supported, and commercial (and proprietary; one need not follow from
the other); 386BSD is newer, still flaky in some cases, and, as far as I
know, not a commercial product from anyone.

If I needed an OS to do work, it would probably be BSD/386.  If I were going
to install an OS on a machine for the express purpose of playing, it would
be either Linux or 386BSD (probably the latter, at least until networking is
available and stable in Linux).

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how
sef@kithrup.COM  |  little effort you make to learn your way around."
-----------------+    -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.