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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!psinntp!trixie.nslsilus.org!amitai.schlair From: amitai.schlair@usa.net (Amitai Schlair) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Is NetBSD alive? Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:52:50 -0500 Organization: the ticalc.org project Lines: 21 Message-ID: <19970529225250235426@[10.0.2.15]> References: <01bc6c60$f76eb860$5f030514@yosemite> NNTP-Posting-Host: nsls1.nslsilus.org X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6022 Dave Schaumann <dschauma@csci.csc.com> wrote: > I'm considering the idea of putting Unix on my x86 box. > Because I'm more familiar with BSD, and because I've had > a bit of experience running NetBSD on an Amiga, I thought > I'd go with NetBSD again. > > However, I find the lack of traffic in this group troubling. > Are the other *BSD variants so much better? Or is NetBSD > so wonderfully easy to use that no one ever finds occasion > to post anything about it? In answer to both questions: no, and no. NetBSD is damn good, and sure, it has problems. But the NetBSD folks are so well organized that most discussion goes on in platform-specific mailing lists. See <http://www.netbsd.org> for more info. -- Amitai Schlair amitai.schlair@usa.net --