From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 15 12:42:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08739 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:42:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08730 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id MAA05943; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:41:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id MAA23606; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:41:55 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id NAA05444; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:41:53 -0700 Message-ID: <369FA811.A675DA24@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:41:53 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? References: <199901150819.TAA06812@ska.bsn> <369F692C.C3D452C6@softweyr.com> <369F8803.81DB0359@uk.radan.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Ovens wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > I have two desktop machines, a SPARCstation 5 and a PII 266 running > > FreeBSD. I still prefer the SPARCstation because it has a better > > keyboard, but prefer FreeBSD to Slowlaris for everything else. Plus, > > the FreeBSD machine is a LOT faster than the SPARC 5. ;^) > > I'll agree with the observation about the keyboard. Sun do a converter > to allow you to use a PC keyboard with a Sun, shame they don't they do > one that does the opposite :-(. > > FWIW, my K6-233 with FreeBSD 2.2.8 is lot faster than my Sparc10 (SunOS > 4.1.3_U1), bith with 64MB. Mind you it's not a fair comparison, what was > a top of the range PC when Sparc 5 & 10 were top Sun workstations?. > That's the comparison you'd have to make. My home system is a K6/233, and it's a nice quick little beast too. It's faster at some things than the PII/266, and slower at others. It also has a very nice keyboard made by NMB, say 95% as good as the Sun Type 5, but I can't find a local dealer that stocks them anymore. > BTW, as you're a Sun and FreeBSD user, do you know if it's possible to > map the function keys in FreeBSD to perform the functions of L2 - L10 > (don't really need L1 ;-) ) on a Sun Keyboard? In what? Most window managers will let you bind keystrokes to actions, and it's certainly easy to do in Emacs. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message