> Maybe they were joking about NetBSD portability?

or about NetBSD's remarkably easy installation process?:)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-advocacy-owner@NetBSD.org=20
> [mailto:netbsd-advocacy-owner@NetBSD.org]On Behalf Of David Maxwell
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:11 AM
> To: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Benchmark Competition for Open Source Operating Systems
>=20
>=20
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:22:50PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > As just posted to freebsd-advocacy and FYI:
> >=20
> > http://osuosl.org/benchmarks/bc/methodology/
> >=20
> > Now there's this one part I don't get:
> > ``We'd like to do NetBSD but we're not sure it would work=20
> on the Dell
> > 2650
> >=20
> [http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/
> pedge_2650?cs=3D555]''
> >=20
> > Why would NetBSD not run on this?
>=20
> No idea. We had one at work - I didn't install NetBSD on it,=20
> but nothing
> about the way the machine ran Linux made me think NetBSD=20
> wouldn't work.
>=20
> Maybe they were joking about NetBSD portability?
>=20
> --=20
> David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net -->
> Any sufficiently advanced Common Sense will seem like magic...=20
> 					      - me
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>=20