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- From: ziegast@rodan.UU.NET (Eric W. Ziegast)
- Subject: Re: time for comp.unix.bsd.386
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- Organization: when necessary
- Disclaimer: My opinions are mine alone, though I'd be happy if others agreed.
- References: <34254@hoptoad.uucp> <1992Aug22.025246.26962@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- <1992Aug22.130620.15015@husc3.harvard.edu>
- <1992Aug23.052605.14262@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 10:31:04 GMT
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- brendan@cygnus.com writes:
- >Any reason not to start a discussion for creating comp.unix.bsd.386?
-
- You just did. Most of the traffic in this group is related to the
- 386BSD operating system. I believe that spawning off a group for
- the development and questions regarding 386BSD would be better. A
- good name for it would be comp.os.386bsd.
-
-
- jiu1@husc9.harvard.edu writes:
- > Someone please do this!!!!!! People like me who use true 4.xBSD
- > UNIX need this group to talk about issues that concern 4.xBSD in
- > general. There has been just too much on 386BSD ...
-
- I agree. I've even put a '/386BSD/:k' in my KILL file.
- I'm thankful to those 386BSD posters who add "386BSD" to their
- Subject headers.
-
-
- comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au writes:
- > It looks to me like it's time. Will c.u.bsd still have enough traffic
- > to make it a viable group? I think so.
-
- Yes, see below.
-
-
- terry@cs.weber.edu writes:
- > This discussion has come up before. You should:
-
- Terry's suggestions lead one to think that it's only the 386BSD and
- BSDI topics that are keeping this group alive.
-
- > o Find out just how many "plain old bsd questions" occur here as
- > opposed to comp.unix.questions.
-
- General BSD discussion is what this group is for, isn't it?
- The 386BSD never started out with their own group. They took over
- this one. At least the USL/BSDI/suit posters moved (most of) their
- discussion to alt.suit.att-bsdi.
-
- The 386BSD people talk more about bugs/failures/successes/questions
- about 386BSD than topics regarding BSD in a broader sense. For
- those who don't care about 386BSD, it's a waste of bandwidth.
-
- Those of you doing 386BSD development, wouldn't you rather have your
- own newsgroup anyway? 386BSD more than deserves it's own group. :^)
-
- > o Name a better place besides a bunch of 4.3 kernel and app hackers
- > to ask a BSD question.
-
- Could you be more specific?
-
- > o Find out how much traffic would be left if 386BSD/BSDI moved elsewhere.
-
- Ok, I parsed/browsed through 757 comp.unix.bsd postings from the past
- two weeks and found:
-
- 386BSD: 498+ articles relating to bugs, successes, failures, questions
- and answers relating to 386BSD.
-
- BSDI: ~70 articles related to the USL lawsuit and BSDI info.
- Aside from the lawsuit, BSDI traffic is rather light (less
- than 5 articles?). Most suit-related discussion spawned
- off into alt.suit.att-bsdi and a couple other groups with
- virtual.lawyers.
-
- 386: There were several (~50) general 386 postings relating
- to Linux, X386, other 386 Unixes (particularly SysV), PC
- equipment, etc.
-
- General:There were about 30 postings which were markedly general to
- BSD. For example, the $8000 question, BSD 4.4, issues re-
- lating to other (non-PC) BSD platforms, etc.
-
- Misc: There were 109 messages that I could not easily tell from
- looking at them (by themselves) what their scope was. I'd
- say easily that at least half of them are 386BSD followups.
-
- It's about time that an official call for discussion be made.
- All that's needed is a name and a charter for the new group.
- --
- Eric Ziegast
-