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Date:      Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:22:48 -0500
From:      Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
To:        & Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        ckempf@enigami.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: USB drivers
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990205081221.03c2ef10@genesis.ispace.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990204230058.A4902@softweyr.com>
References:  <4.1.19990204133817.03dba040@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19990202201553.03c2ca30@genesis.ispace.com> <199902040915.CAA09079@usr04.primenet.com> <4.1.19990204133817.03dba040@genesis.ispace.com>

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At 01:00 AM 2/5/99 , & Peters wrote:
>
>Certainly not the latter anymore.  Lamentably, Dayna is now a (very small)
>part of Intel; that's why I no longer work there.  Gag!

Never really used Dayna products..  Most of the stuff here is Addtron or
3com.  The Mac stuff is Apple Ether or Asante..  I don't really like
machines that come with integrated Ethernet, you never know what you're
gonna get.  

>As I pointed out, NetBSD 1.3.3 will reportedly netboot on the iMac,
>but they can't seem to get enough information about OpenBoot to 
>boot it from the disk.

I wonder if it has to do with that ghastly move away from SCSI to favor
IDE..  That caused some problems with MKLinux back initially.. I think
they've fixed it as of now.

>Wanna bet?  Motorola had/has it running on their StarMax series.  They
>have a full-time engineer support Linux on their embedded and server
>PowerPC CPU boards now, too.  <Sigh>  Too bad we don't engender this
>kind of support.

Starmax's are nice machines, I did one up pretty well.  Apple stretched
licensing costs on them and they left the scene, really sucks, as it goes
the board was made by Apple anyway.  

Does IBM sell a hacked up copy of AIX to run on them?  Or is it just part
of the install for the RS/6000 release?

Linux has a lot of support unfortunately.  Almost has become a name like
Mickey Mouse, especially lately.  Personally I think the Daemon is cooler
than the Penguin (who looks stoned off his..) But that's just me.

One way to get around it would be to have a linuxcc or something so you
could on-the-fly build native Linux apps.  I installed the Linux libs and
the Linux devel, but it still didn't work out for most of the stuff I was
trying to build.  If you can't beat it, emulate it :)  But all in all I'd
say the support for FreeBSD has risen some, and I don't feel bad about
conning all of those people into running it yet :)


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Drew "Droobie" Baxter
Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM)
OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA
http://www.droo.orland.me.us

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