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Hi,

I have "recently" been trying other OSes in their development versions
and I saw that many of them tell the user about the situation (that
the system may fail) and make it very clear how to get involved to
report problems.  That certainly had some effect on me because I
quickly saw how to report the bugs and felt somehow that the
developers cared about what I had to say.  (Maybe I'm biased as in
having sent lots of bug reports in the past... but anyway.)

I think we could do something similar in NetBSD, giving some use to
our currently empty motd.  My idea of this is attached.  Of course the
text could be reworded; I'm just proposing the idea.  It basically
provides different motds for the different development versions we
provide (current, betas and rcs); the default motd (for stable
versions) is left untouched.

What do you think about this?

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
The Julipedia - http://julipedia.blogspot.com/

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