> > If it was up to me, I would hope that NetBSD would be useful to
> > novice users and to "power Unix users" alike.
> And that'd be fine with me - provided it also manages to stay useful to
> under-the-hood hacker types (like me, surprise surprise :-).  I'm just
> pessimistic about how possible that is.

What in the world could cause it to be useless to under-the-hood hacker
types, other than ceasing source distributions?