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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!postmaster From: Ketil Z Malde <ketil@imr.no> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 05 Feb 1997 12:54:44 +0100 Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Lines: 32 Sender: ketil@pinro.imr.no Message-ID: <KETIL-ytqiv47v56j.fsf@pinro.imr.no> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d8f4p$jto@junkie.gnofn.org> <5d94nk$p9n@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <5d9i3q$61h@junkie.gnofn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.imr.no X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82662 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2315 comp.os.linux.misc:156582 craig@gnofn.org (Craig Johnston) writes: > FreeBSD runs on x86. Linux runs on x86 and Alpha and maybe some > others. NetBSD runs on: Alpha, Amiga, Atari(!), HP 9000/300, x86, 68k > mac, PowerPC, Sparc, Sun 3, and VAX, to name a few more recognizeable > ones. ``Maybe some others'' should be read to include (admittedly with varying degrees of stability): Sparc, 68000 (Yep, Amigas, Ataris and Macs included), MIPS, PowerPC (various degrees). Yeah, and there's a Linux server for Mach, which runs on x86 and PowerPC -- and probably with a little effort on other architectures. Not as many as NetBSD, I'm sure, but at least enough to warrant a colon, IMHO. X86, Alpha, and Sparc are supported by the RedHat packet management system (which means commercial support, for those who care about such things), while I *think* Debian only supports X86 as a complete distribution. Does NetBSD run on HP PA-RISCs (700 and 800 series), BTW? Apart from system compatibiltiy, I find the whole argument a bit silly. It's pretty clear that both OSes are nice, slim, fast, and stable to excess, and arguments about how this particular user couldn't get that particular version of the other OS to install on his particular ooga-booga hardware are IMHO somewhat unenlightening. ~kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants