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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:29:36 +0100 (BST)
From: chris_gray <ep71@bcs.org.uk>
To: netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Please give me some reasons.
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On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> As other folks have said, I started off with NetBSD because it supported
> the hardware I had at the time. 

Same here: at the time, for an Atari Falcon with no co-pro NetBSD was the
only game in town.. In the meantime the Falcon has gained a 68882 and the
NetBSD installation has moved to a TT, but I am so happy with NetBSD that
any other OS would need to do some pretty smooth talking.  Like you, I
feel that I know how everything fits together and how it works: and it
works, to the extent that I tend to load anything I consider essential
onto the poor old TT rather than on the adjacent PC running FreeBSD ...

On the Falcon though, NetBSD was never really stable (the Falcon has weird
SCSI, and the Atari ports supremo doesn't own a Falcon ...)  for the sake 
of fairness I should try running Linux on the Falcon.

> This general hardware support is a good
> thing, and NetBSD tends to have good support for things. For instance, if
> you have a PC with USB ports on it, only recently would you have been
> able to use those USB ports with any Unix other than NetBSD.
> 
Hm.  Does this extend to variety of PC plug-in cards?  When I moved this
machine over from Linux to FreeBSD I had to change network cards, because
FreeBSD couldn't handle a "LevelOne FNC-0101TX".  I didn't think to check
out NetBSD ...

-- 
	Chris Gray	chris_gray@bcs.org.uk