I have to agree with this sentiment. I havent upgraded past 1.4.3 
myself, and actually went back to 1.3 on alpha after many problems with 
1.4x... if only i had some more time and there was a critical mass of 
people interested in doing it, i'd more seriously propose forking off a
more true-to-the-old-school small&fast BSD. My focus would of course be 
DEC architectures: PMAX, VAX, and Alpha, and i would cater to those 
arch'es at the expense of being nice to others, but i have been already 
modifying the netbsd distro a bit every time i put it on a system, and 
if there were enough of us, i'd say lets just fork our own maintenance. I 
still read port-vax and a couple other lists because theres a lot of good 
hacking being done here and a lot of very relevant discussion and good 
info, but the folks who are driving the direction of netbsd itself need 
to get back on track, theyre drifting into linuxland... 

(anybody else like to see something like 4.3reno running on an alpha?? :-)

isildur

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> Me, I just stopped updating at 1.4T (a 2000-02-19 source tree).  I'm
> still on the lists in part because NetBSD hasn't yet drifted so far
> that they're useless to me and in part because I still use NetBSD at
> work.  I'll probably leave entirely in a while (FSVO "a while"; it's
> been ten months so far) if the direction change doesn't get reversed.