Subject: Re: startup files (was Re: Updating /etc... )
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/27/1995 13:37:58
>Date: Tue, 26 Dec 95 10:37:56 PST
>From: greywolf@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com (Incorrigible punster -- do not incorrige)

>I would respectfully request that the rc.d thing be made an option and
>not a mandatory thing (and call it something else).

My take on this:  If we make it look like rc.d, it should be *called*
rc.d.  I learned how to administer my NetBSD system by buying a copy
of Nemeth/Snyder/Seebass (sp?) and digging in.  If we institute some
oddball system that someone with a copy of Nemeth/Snyder/Seebass or
whatever can't learn how to use, then he/she/it *WILL USE SOMETHING
ELSE*.

On the basis of such little things are choices made.  I use NetBSD
instead of FreeBSD because in September/October 1993, NetBSD worked
with my Gateway 2K's oddball keyboard and FreeBSD didn't.
-- 
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