kim@pvv.ntnu.no wrote:

> All the versions of Linux I have worked with, including Sparc versions,
> has been much stabler, and frendlier than NetBSD on ARM32.

Do you say that with any authority? Do you know that an ARM Linux system
freezes as soon as you run 3 xv's? Or you can't run two telnets, a find
and an MPEG player at once without it bucketing over? Or some people
who've tried to run the OS on commercial systems and have ended up
banging their head against the wall _so_ many times? While it might be
faster (though these days, not very much) it's certainly not easier to
install either (OK, NetBSD is hard, but Linux is even harder).

> The only reason that I still use NetBSD, is that I currently can't
> afford a new machine. A lot of people has stopped using it on ARM32,
> as far as I can see from the reduced amount of postings here.

Do you think that's anything to do with the platform dying?

> It has always been in a state of almost working.

For me, it works quite well. It's just for an OS that runs on several
quite different architectures, as well as several commercial boards,
there _aren't_ enough hours in the day.

> However, I actually has only one really serious critique of the RiscBSD
> project, and that is the fact that user buildable sources has
> never been sufficiently available, thus stopping lots of users
> from contributing to this project.

Well, if it doesn't work and it really annoys you, *fix it*. I don't see
why one person who feeds back some code from a hobby project should then
exist to be a slave to the whims of hundreds (or thousands) of users on
over 5 platforms.

Just my tuppence worth.