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Date:      Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:58:39 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981003105717.041c3760@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810031602350.13437-100000@banshee.cs.uow.e du.au>
References:  <19981003003108.A12411@execpc.com>

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At 04:13 PM 10/3/98 +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote:
 
>A lot of criticism has been directed towards Walnut
>Creek, and many people have said "if you want a more commercial freebsd
>distribution, go out there and do it". This is where the discussion
>typically ends. There are many out there willing to point out flaws with
>the way Walnut Creek is handling distribution and whatnot of FreeBSD,
>but very few are willing to translate that into action and do something
>about it.

Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to cut into Walnut Creek's
sales, in effect hurting its current efforts. I suspect that the reason
there have not been alternative distributions (other than a token effort
by Cheap Bytes) is that people do not want to do this.

--Brett Glass


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