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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!dukat.mark.nfr.com!not-for-mail From: mark@dukat.mark.nfr.com (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Is NetBSD alive? Date: 29 May 1997 23:01:46 -0400 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5mlfuq$93l@dukat.mark.nfr.com> References: <01bc6c60$f76eb860$5f030514@yosemite> NNTP-Posting-Host: dukat.mark.nfr.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6021 In article <01bc6c60$f76eb860$5f030514@yosemite>, Dave Schaumann <dschauma@csci.csc.com> wrote: > >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? I am perfectly happy with Netbsd. I virtually never post anything because I don't have much of anything to say about it. It just works. [ Well, except for my problem with a 3c590 hanging when I send data through it... :) ] Over the years, I think I've seen some trends in the user communities of the systems. For example, a great advantage of Freebsd is supposedly that it is so easy to install. I think that people that find that appealing end up on Freebsd, where people like me look at the Netbsd install and say "but what's hard about that?" It's only an example, but it is illustrative. If you're a hard core Unix geek from the days when Unix was identified by editions instead of versions, you probably don't have much need to post questions. :) Or if you do, maybe you're in some more specific newsgroup. (e.g. If I wanted to talk about a sendmail problem, I wouldn't do it here.) -- Mark Sienkiewicz Network Flight Recorder, Inc.