Subject: Re: Benchmark Competition for Open Source Operating Systems
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
From: David Maxwell <david@crlf.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/03/2004 00:10:49
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:22:50PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> As just posted to freebsd-advocacy and FYI:
> 
> http://osuosl.org/benchmarks/bc/methodology/
> 
> Now there's this one part I don't get:
> ``We'd like to do NetBSD but we're not sure it would work on the Dell
> 2650
> [http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2650?cs=555]''
> 
> Why would NetBSD not run on this?

No idea. We had one at work - I didn't install NetBSD on it, but nothing
about the way the machine ran Linux made me think NetBSD wouldn't work.

Maybe they were joking about NetBSD portability?

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