Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 07:16:15 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, aledm@pavilion.co.uk, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac-FreeBSD (do they mean us?) Message-ID: <199511080716.HAA06392@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951107230304.21801A-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Nov 7, 95 11:07:40 pm
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Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > > they probably meant netbsd. installing netbsd is a pain, and i'm not > > surprised they compared superficial appearances of netbsd/mac to linux/pc > > and were not impressed. Sorry folks but linux has it all over the *bsd's > > when it comes to installing it and keeping it happy. Bogometer alert! This kind of one-eyed one-sample value statement is crap. > Have you actually tried to install all of: NetBSD/mac68k, NetBSD/i386, > FreeBSD, and Linux? NetBSD/mac68k is nothing even like NetBSD/i386 as I actually thought that installing NetBSD/68k was fairly painless. (some time ago, so it can only have improved...) > far as installation. And NetBSD/68k is buggy, mainly because of all the > little hardware quirks that Apple threw in, and didn't tell anyone about. Like having to use a serial terminal because (at the time) the video on my IIsi wasn't supported 8) > Tom -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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