Having figured out the majordomo complexities, I can finally
say hello again, and contribute something, finally.  Recently a 300
meg disk came free (when I put a new 1 gig one in my Sun4), so I
decided that it was time to put NetBSD on my Amiga.

	The install is not enitrely obvious.  In particular, the bit
about the various environment variables was tedious --- unlike the
documentation (which I no longer have in front of me), the tmp_dir (or
whatever it was) didn't point to a writable temp directory, but to
where the src11 et. al. where.  To make matters worse, the way I got
them by ftp put them all in different directories... which meant
quite a bit extra typing.

	Anyways... no real quibble.  This isn't Linux, and I'm glad.

	First, a question, then:

How to I tell fvwm to back off on the colour allocation _or_ how to I
get xscreensaver to be more agressive?  More colour is needed here or
people visiting are going to laugh --- this is a A500 w/ 50Mhz 030 and
8 meg of RAM --- so a video card is out of the question.

	Next a little buglet:

I've noticed that the xscreensaver module 'maze' will fail to draw the
last little bit when it goes around a corner to a dead end.  This
seems to be some kind of drawing error.  I havn't seen it affect
anything else, though.

	Something I noticed:

Both my Amiga and my SGI (4D/35 at work) are way slower at the one
that draws lots of rectangles when the rectangles are dithered than my
sun4/260.  It seems that something in the video acceleration is
defeated here.  Any ideas?

	And... thanks!

ppp is up and running.  I've tried load av's of 15 or so.  Run the
heck out of it for a few days.  I'm going to build my own kernel next,
but will have to wait until I trip over another disk for a full build
of the world.

I'm wondering which will be faster:

Sun3/260 w/ 8,16,24 or 32 meg of memory (possible) (this is 16Mhz 020,
	I think...)

..or..

Amiga500 w/25Mhz 030 and 8 meg 32 bit RAM.

The faster one will end up building the world all the time, I think.
Now to figure out how to get the sparc to gateway.

Dave.

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