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Date:      Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:34:44 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@Haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 -release ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971204093313.29509C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <199712040238.TAA22599@mt.sri.com>

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On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Nate Williams wrote:

> > I just mean that if there wasn't a SMP kernel available anywhere, I would
> > have moved to Linux, and probably switched all my machines.
> 
> Great, feel free.

Hey! I though he said that he is running -current on the SMP machine? 

> 
> > If I didn't feel comfortable paying with experimental software, I wouldn't
> > have tried at all, and definately gone with Linux.
> 
> Then why are you using Linux/SMP?

But he is not! He is using FreeBSD-current...

> 
> > I'm saying that I think it would be a shame to lose FreeBSD users
> > because of a lack of features that other OS's have, and no-one has
> > even given a rough date that these features will be available.
> 
> The people who run the 'OS of the day' aren't that critical to FreeBSD's
> success, since there will *always* be something that causes them to
> switch to another OS.
> 

Hmmm... 

> 
> Nate
> 

	Sander

	There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future -
	all these are just illusions.





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