Subject: Re: 1.2.x --> 1.3_ALPHA upgrade
To: Mark Andres , Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Nico van Eikema Hommes <hommes@derioc1.organik.uni-erlangen.de>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/08/1997 23:25:20
    Hi Mark and Colin,

>You're very welcome, Colin. Thank you for making this available. What I am
>worried about is that many people on port-mac68k are NOT on current-users.
>People may not be running -current, but might wnat to try upgrading.
>Those people will miss a lot of discussion of problems and pitfalls. IMO,
>documentation means letting one poor sucker make mistakes and then have
>everyone else learn from those mistakes without having to go through the
>same misery.

I disagree a bit. My reason for running NetBSD on my Quadra is having a
Unix-like system available at home for programming and communication via
ssh. I like to run a fairly -current version. However, I'm not involved in
developing NetBSD (there's too little Fortran in it ;-) and the port-mac68k
generates sufficient traffic to keep me from subscribing other lists.

Therefore, I warmly welcome Colin's efforts to provide documentation (how
about putting it also on www.macbsd.com?) and otherwise accept that my
Unix experience needs to be sufficient to overcome any probelms.

>For those interested, 1.3-ALPHA is running fine on my IIcx, but my IIcx
>doesn't do much more than serve web pages.

It (that is the "official" 25 October snapshot, with Generic-46 kernel) also
runs fine (from the ZIP drive, at the moment) on my Quadra 650.

Best wishes,

          Nico

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