From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 6 11:48:38 2001 From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 11:48:35 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227A837B402 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:48:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010106194638.YEFE3375.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:46:38 -0800 Sender: rob@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A58C7F7.617C2257@home.com> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 11:48:07 -0800 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Nathan Ahlstrom , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD? References: <20010106114929.B15125@winternet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have OpenBSD 2.8 CD's here, and tried to install on my nephews new IMac DV+ Would crash the install kernel- I think they since updated it. But if it wont work with the latest Macs, I doubt that old ones would be supported. If they don't physically have the hardware to test and debug, it doesn't get supported. Just like any *nix. Rob. Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 11:49 AM -0600 2001/1/6, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote: > > > In my experience, it is NOT that bad. In fact, I have always been > > quite pleased when using it. They have recently integrated their > > UBC work (in NetBSD-current) and have a really cool /etc/rc setup. > > How stable is their -current? Any ideas when the UBC stuff will > get integrated into their next -stable? > > For example, I've been studiously avoiding doing anything with > FreeBSD-current, because I know that I don't have the time and talent > necessary to be able to make that work, or to be able to deal with > the problems that may result. I'd hate to be forced to go with > NetBSD-current just to get something like UBC (although I'm not > convinced that I'd need it or be able to make much use of it, for the > kinds of applications I have in mind). > > -- > These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy > ====================================================================== > Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV > Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 > Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels > http://www.skynet.be || Belgium > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message