From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 8 22:47:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA22682 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 22:47:20 -0800 Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA22672 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 22:47:16 -0800 Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Thu, 9 Nov 95 06:47 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id HAA22079; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 07:46:44 +0100 Message-Id: <199511090646.HAA22079@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Andy Tanenbaum: Free UNIX clone (MINIX) available via WWW/FTP To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 07:46:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <847.815883051@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 8, 95 06:10:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 735 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > > I think it should be passed on to announce with a prefix saying that > > 'this is what to ell people that ask about running FreeBSD on their 286.. > > it should also be in the FAQ.. > > Uh. That's really reaching, Julian.. :-) > > Minix != FreeBSD just as Xenix != FreeBSD and you hardly see us giving > pointers to Xenix. Well, there are two obvious reasons why not, both of which don't apply to Minix: 1. Xenix isn't free. In fact, it costs an arm, a leg, and a mind. 2. Current versions of Xenix don't run on 286s I don't think it would do any harm to give pointers to people who don't have the hardware to run FreeBSD. I don't think it would do much harm not to, for that matter. Greg