mo...@rodents-montreal.org writes: > But I too find it regrettable and possibly dangerous.
Me, too. What NetBSD offers, that no other O/S offers, is the support for platforms that are no longer mainstream. I've run it on Sparc and VAX processors for years, and hope to continue playing with these old machines. I enjoy reading about others running NetBSD on even more exotic platforms. (Incidentally, and I run OmniNet (an ancient 2Mbps token ring network) between machines in my home lab that are too old to even run NetBSD.) If support for network protocols belonging to platforms still supported by NetBSD itself is going to be ditched, that's a very sad development, and a step in the direction of saying "forget NetBSD - let's all just run FreeBSD (or even Linux) on iAPX64 platforms instead". -tih -- Popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity. --Niles Crane, "Frasier"