Subject: Re: Linux?
To: Mipam <reinoud@ibbnet.org>
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/08/2000 15:51:56
On Friday,  7 April 2000 at 14:09:25 +0200, Mipam wrote:
>>>> is they want from linux that they can't find in NetBSD?
>>
>> An easy install???
>
> An easy install? I mean, the install is well described on the netbsd webpages.
> Furthermore, when you want to use netbsd, you should be interested in it.
> Netbsd isnt just a desktop os or an os meant for the x86 platform.
> Its platform independ as possible and offers clean code in a way the others
> and certainly
> linux cant offer. A little bit knowledge of disks, how it works, bytes, sectors,

Don't look now, but they're gaining.  AFAIK no BSD (and that includes
BSD/OS) runs on PCI bus SPARC machines.  Linux does.  A few weeks ago
I was going to demonstrate a BSD install for some Linux users I know,
but all they had was an Ultra 5, and so I couldn't do it.  Work is
needed.

Greg
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