On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:13:57AM -0800, Jeff_W wrote:
> more soft sell served softly ~
>
> NetBSD 3.0 was released 12/23/2005 and is downloadable via
> the usual ways as well bittorrent.
>
> o http://netbsd.org/Releases/formal-3/NetBSD-3.0.html
>
> o ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/3.0/multi-cd1-3.0.iso.torrent
> (contains: i386 macppc sparc sparc64)
Ahh, NetBSD.. They kinda soured a few people when for something like a
year it was not possible to have greater than 16 MB on an i386 system
because doing so would crash some combination of DEC Alpha and some random
ISA bus SCSI card or something like that.
Upon hearing and reading old archives about this, it sounded politically
way too much like Debian for my tastes. It seemed like NetBSD people
don't like change, and change is the only constant in the industry. At
the time, NetBSD had a reputation for chewing up and spitting out anyone
who tried to change anything, so I hope attitudes have shifted a little.
My understanding of FreeBSD is that they're not afraid to chew up and spit
out anyone who gets in the way of progress, where progess is undefined for
the most part. ;)
OpenBSD seems to chew up and spit out anyone who Theo manages to become
unhappy with. This is most people he ever talks to. ;) I remember that
as a total n00b many eons ago I asked a very n00b question on a mailing
list. For more than a year thereafter, I would get an occasional email
from Theo telling me that I had been added to his list of idiots and that
any email I sent to him would not be read. This despite the fact that I
never sent him an email in the first place. =)
If we started talking about conditions to cause similar outcomes in even
just the major Linux distributions, we'll be here all night, because it
seems that anyone's response to having this happen to them in a dist is to
start their own competition to it, rather than joining another existing
distribution. And yet most of them use RPM and its idiotic dependencies
on files, rather than on packages. (That is my single complaint about RPM
and the single reason why I won't use RPM-based distributions..)
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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