[1764] in NetBSD-Development
NetBSD-Athena sucks, again!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Sat Sep 5 04:11:25 1998
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 04:11:15 -0400
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
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In a most ridiculous set of affairs, it seems that NetBSD-Athena 8.2
was released with a *major* known bug in the installation procedure,
despite the bug and a fairly trivial workaround being known for
multiple months in advance. That is, to wit, that the AFS startup
during the installion hangs.
If it weren't for the fact that probably every user who tries it is
going to lose in this fashion, and is going to simply try Linux
instead, I would find this comical. As it stands, it's just yet
another example of NetBSD-Athena losing catastrophically over the
years.
I'm sick of this. I'm also sick of butting heads with people (largely
Greg) every time I actually offer to contribute something to
NetBSD-Athena or related efforts.
I will be organizing a separate NetBSD-Athena release which actually
works, and recommending to users that they use it instead. If anyone
reading this is interested in helping, please mail me privately and I
will set up a list to discuss my plans.
