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From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse)
Subject: Re: InfoMagic's BSDisc Sucks
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Nathan (nathan@senate.org) wrote:
: When FBSD 2.2 first came out, InfoMagic cancelled production on its
: current
: BSDiscs to produce a new BSDisc. "Coming in March 97 -- preorders being
: accepted"
: it said. Well now 2.2.1 is out and they're still "Coming in April 97."
: In short,
: unless you REALLY need to save $5 and get both FBSD and NetBSD, buy
: direct from
: Walnut Creek.

I'm also disappointed with InfoMagic's distribution of Motif (MooTiff) for
FreeBSD: brain-dead installation script, incoherent paths, badly formatted
manual pages, and so on... !
Furthermore, Linux users benefitted from an upgrade (from Motif V2.0 to
Motif V2.1 if I'm right...) but FreeBSD users are still stuck with the
March 96 edition !
What the Hell is going wrong with 'em ???

FreeBSD is quite a stable platform, so why should we have software upgrades
like Linux users do ? -- At least for -RELEASE versions !

Just my few cents... (or `centimes' since I'm french ;-)


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