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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux Date: 1 Sep 1995 13:16:11 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 23 Message-ID: <42712r$lp6@reason.cdrom.com> References: <4233kp$t8p@hilly.apci.net> <425a9b$89r@felix.junction.net> <425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:875 comp.os.linux.advocacy:18576 thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe) wrote: >I beg to differ ... He mentioned Sun and DEC in his previous post. While >he is currently not considering those platforms, he _may_ do so in the >future. Why lock yourself into one platform? NetBSD currently runs >extremely well on Intel-based platforms, as well as 11 others, including >the Sun 4/4c and DEC Alpha. It's good to have more than one platform >in your bag of tricks :-) This assumes that all Intel *BSDs are created equal. They're not, and you should pick the one that works best for you regardless of any other more hypothetical considerations. If you genuinely NEED the other platforms then that's entirely different, but I certainly wouldn't make this kind of recommendation to someone who's got 10 PCs sitting around and absolutely no future plans for anything else. With anything but Intel, I'd recommend hedging ones bets but Intel is pretty strong at this point and none of its competition come anywhere close to its current or projected market share. Yes, the PowerPC looks nice and I'd certainly like an ALPHA on my desk, but the smart money still says look to the P6 if you're looking for performance and the largest array of external options. We certainly didn't back Intel because we liked the instruction set! :-) -- Jordan