[Gllug] Any NetBSD users lurking around here?

Jim Bailey jim at freesolutions.net
Wed Dec 11 16:06:08 UTC 2002


On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:23:47PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Stephen Harker writes:
> 
> >> The answer is "nearly". In that I'm currently running OpenBSD, and will
> >> be installing NetBSD on my Alpha and NeXT as soon as I get half a million
> >> other things cleared from my todo list!
> >
> >The next question (and I'm not trolling, just interested) is: why?
> 
> There are many reasons. For a start, variety is good. But that apart,
> I have the hardware, and I want to run a free OS on each of them. Linux
> doesn't support Turbochannel based Alphas, while NetBSD does. Equally,
> Linux doesn't support black NeXT hardware. Neither does NetBSD (at least
> not for my Turbo models), but the port is much closer to working than
> the stalled Linux port.

I didn't realise that NetBSD was better on older hardware I have old
RS6000s Sparcs and even an old SGI Challenge DM server awaiting me to
get my act together.  NetBSD deserves another look I think, thanks for
the info.

Peace Jim

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