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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!lestat.nas.nasa.gov!thorpej From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux Date: 1 Sep 1995 18:24:00 GMT Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames Lines: 26 Message-ID: <427j40$kks@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> References: <4233kp$t8p@hilly.apci.net> <425a9b$89r@felix.junction.net> <425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lestat.nas.nasa.gov Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:948 comp.os.linux.advocacy:19541 In article <425s8h$ah1@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>, Jason Garman <garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote: >Perhaps you've never heard of Sparc/Linux or Alpha/Linux then :-) >Both are actively being worked on, and Alpha/Linux is slowly nearing >an end-user release... Actually, yes I have, and I _knew_ someone would bring them up :-) So, I'm curious ... which Alpha machines does Alpha/Linux run on? Note I'm currently running NetBSD/alpha on an AlphaStation 600 ... runs Pretty Darn Good, and, saving some machine dependant code that hasn't been committed to NetBSD's source tree yet, compiles from the same source tree (including user-land) as the other NetBSD ports. Anyhow, the last I heard, Alpha/Linux only ran on DECpc AXP boxes, which, to my knowledge, have been discontinued. I don't currently know the state of Sparc/Linux ... Although, last I heard, it was fairly primitive. -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939