Re: ANNOUNCE: ComOS 3.1.4 released for PortMaster

Mark E. Mallett (mem@mv.MV.COM)
Sun, 24 Sep 1995 12:50:51 -0400 (EDT)

>
> Once upon a time Chris B. Wilson, VectorNet shaped the electrons to say...
> >Give them the hint and set the password to "PortItToBSDAlready!" :)
>
> Keep in mind that there will always be an OS we don't support, always
> something someone wants ported - and if you have that OS it is the most
> important thing in the world to you. People wanted PMconsole for Windows
> platforms - that is in beta. People wanted PMconsole for Linux - that is
> in beta. There is only so much you can do at one time. Also, keep in
> mind that once we port something, we have to support it to. So we need to
> have that platform and someone with experience on it.

You probably have no way of knowing this, but:

Keep in mind that I, for one, have been told that BSDi support has
been right around the corner and "in the lab" now for almost two years.
In fact it (along with some other things that have yet to materialize)
was a factor in the purchasing decision. From this and the many other
things that got the same kind of answers "It's a current RFE. It's in
the lab. You should see that within 2 months" I no longer have any
credence for any such statement that comes out of Livingston.

In another message I read that support for BSD/OS 2.0 is coming out
and that there are already enough beta testers. Well why haven't
people like me, who have been promised this for such a long time, been
contacted and asked to test this out, assuming it's even true (see
previous paragraph)? Judging from some of the previous code releases,
Livingston could probably use more beta testers. Also I consider
any BSDi release that doesn't support BSDi 1.1 not to be enough.

-mm-