From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 8 16:42:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAF237B401; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 16:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1091"@[136.142.21.68]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K5P7MP7P54005PQT@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu>; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 19:42:41 EST Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 19:44:46 -0700 From: Pedro F Giffuni Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) To: Greg Lehey Cc: Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <3B491A9E.D5392F7C@pitt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <3B478570.67B193CB@pitt.edu> <20010709080330.G80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > ... > > OK, let's take a look. RS/6000? Linux does, NetBSD doesn't really. > Ultra SPARC with PCI bus? Linux does. Last time I looked, NetBSD > didn't. S/390? Linux does, NetBSD doesn't. SMP machines? Linux > does, NetBSD doesn't. > > Especially from an IBM point of view, this points very much to Linux > as being the more portable system. I don't think anybody cares very > much whether Linux runs on a Sun 3. > Admitedly, NetBSD and Linux offer interesting features for platforms that are already dying, but I don't think it's a real option for new equipment. The problem is: how many people actually buy a new Ultra SPARC or an IBM PPC to run Linux on it? I mean serious users trying to use it for business purposes. FWIW I have a DEC 3000/300 in my office; although I could run NetBSD on it some day (and someone said it's faster), the first choice is Tru64 (which is still there). Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message