Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:49:22 -0400 From: Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Its arrived Message-ID: <19970722144921.62520@num1sun.intercore.com> In-Reply-To: <4244.869591184@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Jul 22, 1997 at 10:06:24AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970722142115.445N-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> <4244.869591184@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, Jul 22, 1997 at 10:06:24AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> Installing NetBSD would probably not be a bad idea at all, though if
> you're looking for an environment from which to bootstrap your efforts
> (that being why there are 2 drives in those machines with only one
> actually populated :-) then you're probably best off with what you've
> got installed on it right now - Digital UNIX. DUX is a stable
> development platform, it has a decent toolchain (and a compiler which
> generally produces better code that gcc at present) and all the X
> frobs you could possibly want (plus some you probably won't, like CDE :-).
>
If you want a *real* stable X, use DUX. I did parts of the Linux-alpha
port and the servers are a real #$%^& to get working. XFree86 is
mostly working now but there are still some glitches here and there.
>
> Before that, I ran Red Hat Linux just to see what they were up to and
> I wasn't much impressed. You couldn't even build a working kernel
> from the sources distributed with Red Hat 4.1 (something which RH
> admitted to) and stability was not all that marvelous - I managed to
> hang the system quite often just while playing with various X
> utilities. Getting a reasonable set of sources for RedHat installed,
> after being used to our own /usr/src tree, was also a nightmare by
> comparison. :)
>
I just installed 4.2 (after living through the old days with 4.0/1) and
it worked pretty well. A good milo is the key.
I look forward to working with XFree86 on FreeBSD as your work progresses...
robin
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