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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD on a 486? Date: 7 Mar 94 00:32:07 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 39 Message-ID: <michaelv.763000327@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> References: <2l5f5lINNglq@uwm.edu> <NAWAZ921.94Mar5184635@lava.cs.uidaho.edu> <michaelv.762972340@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu In <michaelv.762972340@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >In <NAWAZ921.94Mar5184635@lava.cs.uidaho.edu> nawaz921@cs.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) writes: >>In article <2l5f5lINNglq@uwm.edu> jr12@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (James Richard Leu) writes: >> I currently run linux on my 486 at home... Can NetBSD be run on a Intel >> based proccessor? If not what arch's does it run on? >> Please responde to jr12@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu.. >> Thanks in advance >>you could try FreeBSD... >Or NetBSD-0.9. Of course it runs on 386's, 486's and Pentiums, as >well as Amigas, Macs, Sun Sparcs, DECstations, etc. Look on >agate.berkeley.edu, gatekeeper.dec.com, or ftp.iastate.edu (among >other sites) for a NetBSD distribution. It's a nit-picky point, but I probably should clarify. NetBSD-0.9 is the last official release. It doesn't run on anything but Intel (and compatible) CPU's. It is easy to install and use (relatively speaking). NetBSD-current, the development sources that will soon be NetBSD-1.0, works on all those different architectures and more. NetBSD-current also adds things like shared libraries, dynamic linking, ppp support, etc. You would be best off installing 0.9 first, and moving to current only after you've become familiar with the system. (And, 1.0 might even be out by then.) Either way, I'm sure you will like NetBSD much better than Linux. Not to start another O/S flameware -- just my opinion and impressions. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------