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From: "Eric Delcamp" <e.delcamp@wanadoo.fr>
To: "NetBSD advocacy" <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
Subject: Re: Linux news
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:13:19 +0200
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De : Eric Delcamp <e.delcamp@wanadoo.fr>
À : NetBSD current users <current-users@netbsd.org>
Date : mercredi 7 avril 1999 13:54
Objet : Linux news


>Hi !
>
>Latest Linux news: VA Research founded by Intel, Corel launch his own
>distribution of Linux, Creative Labs get a software engineer to make audio
>drivers for all SoundBlaster PCI cards, and later for video cards, 3Dfx put
>a Glide driver for Linux and Banshee 2D specs on his web, Adaptec release
>his Ultra2SCSI specs for Linux, and Symbios Logic work with Alan Cox to I2O
>drivers.
>
>My question is really simple : where is NetBSD in all of this ? Leaving
>Linux behind the scene is a little frustating for me.
>I have asked 3 weeks ago a document describing majors changes in NetBSD
1.4,
>and futures orientations of NetBSD (1.5 and later). I'm not qualified to
>write such document, but we need it (a good place is the NetBSD web site)
to
>show what NetBSD do, will do, and give me a base to contact computer
>magazines (in France) for informations about NetBSD. This could help NetBSD
>users too (could someone explain me what are the biggest lines of changes
>for futures versions ?).
>
>We need more communications, especially with the press.
>
>Thans.
>---
>Eric Delcamp....ICQ:34110772.......NetBSD i386 & Amiga, BeOS, Windows NT
>Merignac...........................Distributed.net : < 6200th (30/03/99)
>France.............................Magic the Gathering player
>http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.delcamp/