From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Nov 7 23:22:50 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA25814 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 23:22:50 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA25809 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 23:22:38 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA06392; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 07:16:15 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511080716.HAA06392@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Mac-FreeBSD (do they mean us?) To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 07:16:15 +0000 () Cc: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, aledm@pavilion.co.uk, ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Nov 7, 95 11:07:40 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1323 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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! [[