Re: Comparison NetBSD / Linux for Amiga

[Lars Hecking <lhecking%nmrc.ucc.ie@localhost>]

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> I've only had NetBSD installed for less than a week.  I have noticed that
> it can be booted from the Amiga boot menu.  Linux however is not to the
> point where it can do so.  It requires either Amiga Lilo or boothack to

 Huh? Why, if Linux can't do that, can I go into the boot menu on my
 3000 and select whether to boot dh0 (AmigaOS), rhroot (Linux), or
 bsdroot (NetBSD)?

> boot.  Amiga Lilo used to work a long time ago, with the M68K 
> distribution.  I'm not sure it is maintained anymore.   I guess the real

 I _think_ this may be a Debian specific problem. RedHat comes with
 Amiga-lilo, and it's _fully_ functional.

> problem with Linux in this reqard, is it can't initialize the hardware
> properly like NetBSD.

 That's wild claim. Can you back it up?

>                        In that sense NetBSD is more mature.  I've also
> noticed that NetBSD seems really stable, so far.

 Agreed.

[Flame wars >/dev/null. I'm a happy user of both OS's.]