Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. OpenBSD?
To: Nathan G. Raymond <xray@cs.brandeis.edu>
From: Adam Alexander <yacko@cherokee.wildstar.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/17/1997 17:02:26
When you say precompiled binaries, are these beyond what came with NetBSD?

On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Nathan G. Raymond wrote:

> >From <http://www.openbsd.org/mac68k.html>:
> 
> History and Status:
> 
> The mac68k port of OpenBSD runs on the same machines as the NetBSD port,
> but it is quite different in several respects. Only a small percentage of
> the full system lies within the machine-dependent section.
> 
> There is a list of changes in the machine-independent portions of the
> system. Check it out.
> 
> mac68k-specific changes
> 
>      Handle video interrupts on Q700 and 2-page display card. 
>      Integrate work from John Wittkoski and Takashi Hamada for direct-access ADB
>      support. Should make ADB work on many, many machines. 
> 
> For more information, contact Gene or Allen. 
> 
> 
> So what's the deal?
> I just toasted my install of NetBSD so I could re-partition (word of
> warning: if you like long start ups, be sure to format a drive with UNIX
> partitions only, so the Mac will repeatedly waste time in desperate search
> of a Mac partition).  So would I gain any advantages if I go with OpenBSD?
> So far the big attraction to NetBSD for me has been the availability of
> 68k pre-compiled binaries, which has been excellent (if you inlcude the
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Amiga archives).  It's been a big time saver.
> 
> Can OpenBSD give me anything NetBSD doesn't have on my Mac II?
> 
> -- 
> Nathan Raymond
> xray@cs.brandeis.edu
> raymond@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
> http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~xray
>