Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 21:55:38 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Its arrived Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970723015538.00691f60@mindspring.com>
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At 02:49 PM 7/22/97 -0400, Robin Cutshaw wrote: >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 :-). Have fun compiling GNU stuff. I ran into no end of troubles, and I no newbie at compiling stuff. > >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. I've got a Sun 3/110 + color monitor, netbooting from a NetBSD/Alpha box. It works fine for me. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"
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