From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 17 17:45:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18867 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tok.qiv.com ([204.214.141.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA18860 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:45:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id TAA00787; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 19:45:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00529; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 19:40:56 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 19:40:56 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM/RS-6000 In-Reply-To: <199706172056.OAA21402@xmission.xmission.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Touche' -- I agree, by the way -- but sucking Texas rocks is a bit extreme. I've worked with it for 2 years and it still frustrates me but when you have no choice, you make do. It's probably better to help Robert deal with the transition than to convince him to blow his brains out. If it was NT, though, I would -- hand have -- quit. -- Cheers -- Jay On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: ->On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Robert Heron wrote: ->% I run FreeBSD on an Intel platform and probably will need to transfer ->% the server into IBM RS-6000 43P-140 with AIX 4.2. Since differences ->% between BSD and AIX are so big I consider setting up FreeBSD on RS-6000. ->% Is there a version of FreeBSD for mentioned platform? -> ->Jay D. Nelson replied: ->> I don't think [Open,Net]BSD is an answer unless you're lucky. They only ->> support PCI machines, which your 43P is, but I'm not sure IBM supports the ->> OpenProm spec. ->> ->> AIX, however, is one of the most BSDish Unices out there. It shouldn't be ->> that hard to make the switch. (The 42P is a nice box, BTW.) -> ->I was going to leave this one alone, but now I just can't. AIX is an ->ugly egregious barfluous mess, and sucks rocks in Texas. It is what ->I'd imagine you get when you start with a perfectly ugly version of ->UNIX, SVR2, and let a bunch of ex-mainframe goobers hack on it for 5 ->or 6 years to make it 'better.' -> ->> Don't be alarmed when you find you both love _and_ hate AIX. -> ->Don't be alarmed when you find yourself throwing your AIX machine off ->the top of the building by way of quitting your job and moving to ->more humane employment. -> ->This from someone who was once sentenced to find a way programmatically ->to determine if an AIX machine was operating 'securely.' I'd already ->done it on 6 or 7 other variants of UNIX, mind you. The AIX version ->took twice as long as creating the software initially on Ultrix and ->SunOS did. -> ->-- -> "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" -> ->Wes Peters Softweyr LLC ->http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com ->