Subject: Re: BSD vs ?
To: Rich Holtzschue <Rich.Holtzschue@f2020.n147.z1.fidonet.org>
From: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net>
List: port-amiga
Date: 04/09/1999 12:22:21
In message <923638602@f2020.n147.z1.ftn>, Rich Holtzschue writes:
> I have heard that some flavor of BSD has been avail for Amiga for some yr
>now. Seems like I recall seeing one of our Amiga group members (Oklahoma Amig
>Comuter EnthusiastS - OACES) demoing BSD on his A3K at leat 4 yrs ago. Linux
>it's various forms has only just recently started migrating to our platform.
Well, I started using NetBSD on my Amiga 3000 in 1994 (as I recall,
there was an Amiga Linux 'port' at the time, but it wasn't anywhere near
usable).
> Does BSD in it's various flavors use the Linux kernel?
No, NetBSD is a completely different kernel than Linux.
> Does BSD have multi-threaded capability?
There are some userland threads packages, but no kernel threads yet.
It's supposedly being worked on.
> Does FreeBSD have cfgs for diff platforms?
A couple, but not nearly as many as NetBSD, and not the Amiga.