On 1/13/06, T. Joseph CARTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
You have to keep in mind that the primary goal of the NetBSD project is portability. It's not so much that they oppose change, but the fact that one distro has to run on all supported architectures. As a NetBSD user, I think that some of those arch's should be scrapped (who cares if one binary doesn't run on some PDA or outdated Atari?) but of course, I have no say in the matter. There has been some change though, one important one being shorter release cycles. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
