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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1282 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:33:44 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Linux or 386BSD? Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 06:39:31 GMT Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9302140139.31@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <1l6evhINN178@smurf.sti.com> <729313115snx@crynwr.com> Lines: 34 In article <729313115snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes: >In article <1kv7e4INNc8h@smurf.sti.com> dgreen@sti.com (Dan R. Greening) writes: > > Actually, it is somewhat annoying to see uninformative "try both" replys. > Doesn't anyone have an honest opinion? It takes days to boot both, > >Honest opinion: I don't think 386bsd is worth bothering with, because it >doesn't use the GNU GPL. In the long term, GPL'ed software will >dominate, and I can't see wasting my time on 386bsd. > >Well, you asked for an opinion... > >In article <1l6evhINN178@smurf.sti.com> dgreen@sti.com writes: > > As parochial as Diamond is about its card, my Linux experience gives me > some sympathy for those with politically incorrect VGA drivers. I started > looking in PC magazines for a decent hardware system and Diamond Stealth > cards dominate the high-end market. I could imagine others having the same > problems I had with my NE2000 card. Politically correct or not, deliberate > non-support of Diamond cards will likely have the effect of pushing people > toward a commercial Unix system--or not adopting Unix at all. > >No, you don't understand. It's not the Xfree people who aren't >supporting Diamond, it's Diamond who's not supporting them. So don't >reward them by buying their hardware... As far as I know, there are NO commercial UNIX packages supporting the Diamond cards in resolutions greater than 640x480 resolution. Only Windows 3.1 supports Diamond cards at SVGA resolutions. -- Rick Kelly rmkhome!rmk@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP