Subject: Re: Page on www.amiga.de for NetBSD
To: None <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 05/26/1998 13:31:29
On 25.05.98, 22:48:24, Markus Illenseer wrote:
> > Does anyone have any thoughts/ideas on how to phrase an
> > appropriate page on www.amiga.de referencing NetBSD?
>
> My quick proposal, please correct wrong terms and numbers.
Here goes ... Mostly typos ...
>
> also available for the Amiga platform. Beeing the the third platform
Being
> NetBSD was ported onto, Amiga has a long tradition since 1993, and
has had
> software. Currently a wast amount of Amiga-releated hardware is supported,
vast
> such as graphic boards, SCSI host adaptors, different CPU types (from
graphics adapters
>
> NetBSD/Amiga is binary compatible to all other m68000-based NetBSD
> platform such as NetBSD/Mac, NetBSD/Atari, NetBSD/Sun3, NetBSD/HP300
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is that true?
>
> NetBSD has - unless other free UNICES - another idea to distribute the
unlike ^^^^^^ is that the correct plural form?
> System. All NetBSD releases are full distribution sets and do not only
> inclue a kernel, but also the complete user land, including X Window
This is not a strong argument, as in fact most Linux distributions
contain a _lot_ more. And the casual installer does not care what really
is "Linux" or "NetBSD" as such and what has been added by the
distributors.
> and a C compiler. Currently version 1.3.2 is up to date and available
^^^^^ is it?
> by ftp and on CD-ROM. A complete distribution for all supported
>
All the rest sounds good.
> --
> Markus Illenseer
>
>
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Bernd Sieker