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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!gumby!destroyer!terminator!stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu!pauls From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) Subject: Re: Catch What They're Saying About Us... Message-ID: <1992Sep29.150539.5241@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Sender: news@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Usenet Owner) Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services References: <19ta0nINNj2q@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep25.021813.2369@kithrup.COM> <1992Sep29.132808.29177@prism.poly.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:05:39 GMT Lines: 28 In article <1992Sep29.132808.29177@prism.poly.edu> kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela) writes: >In article <1992Sep25.021813.2369@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >>BSDi is actually benefited, to some degree, by 386BSD. BSD/386 is stabler, >>better supported, and commercial (and proprietary; one need not follow from > >Better supported? A few techies compared to thousands of readers of this >newsgroup? And what happens if BSDI goes out of business? Couldn't agree more. The support I get out of this newsgroup is better, faster and cheaper than any support I've received from any commercial firm. Not to mention friendlier. >Nowhere in the distribution is any mention made that 386BSD is a production >system. In fact, the notes emphasize that the release is targeted for >research/education, not the commercial sector. Nonetheless, I have basically been using the system only as an end-user, and I would characterize my impression as *far* from dissatisfied. I have no desire (or reason) to change. Paul Southworth | ftp redspread.css.itd.umich.edu Consulting and Support Services | Anonymous Political Archives Information Technology Division | 100% 386BSD 0.1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Coming soon: mirror of ftp.eff.org <Representing myself. Everything I say is for educational use only.>