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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!jj From: jj@seldon.apanix.apana.org.au (Lucas James) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: What OS will work on my system? Date: 19 Oct 1994 06:56:08 GMT Organization: cleese.apana.org.au Public Access UNIX +61-8-3736006 Lines: 50 Message-ID: <382fu9$ne@cleese.apana.org.au> References: <37d9vr$589@budapest.ozonline.com.au> <jmonroyCxsJBB.916@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] On Mon, 17 Oct 1994 00:13:58 GMT, Jesus Monroy Jr (jmonroy@netcom.com) wrote: : Sebastien Hadjifotis (cstebbing@ozonline.com.au) wrote: : : I have the following configuration: : : Pentium P90 (4 PCI, 4 ISA, 3 VLB) : : 32MB Ram : : Seagate IDE 540MB : : Seagate SCSI-2 1.08 GB : : QLogic FastSCSI PCI Controller : : Diamond Stealth 64 PCI (S3 chipset, 4MB VRAM) Graphics Controller. : : Aim: To connect onto the Internet using PPP or SLIP, providing a : : number of services : : (www, gopher, etc. ) on the Internet. : : I need help on recommendations on whether: : : 1. The existing configuration is supported by any current UNIX : : distributions. : : 2. Any suggestions on hardware changes required to support UNIX. : : : Barring the rather rude response that proceeded, : I would say that any of the currently available OSs : would be a good choice. However, none do support : PCI or VLB. I would recommend LINUX if you are in : a hurry to see the buses used. LINUX developers : seem to out pace all other groups combined. When was the last time you looked at Net/FreeBSD? NetBSD-1.0* has support for PCI (so does FreeBSD If I understand some of the posts in these newsgroups) As for the QLogic controller, I don't know. If it is based on the NCR 53c810 chipset it should work ok. Last time I used X on a PC, XFree didn't support the Diamond cards (this was a while ago, though. : However, if you want compatiblity and the BSD "feel" : then perhaps you :want either FreeBSD, NEtBSD, or 386BSD (soon available). And I suppose 386BSD-1.0 has support for all busses (E/ISA,PCI,VLB,MCA,MULTIBUS,S100,VME,QBUS,UNIBUS et al) bit for your sig: : /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation /dont-use-current -- Lucas James jj@apanix.apana.org.au