On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 04:35:47PM -0800, Neil A. Carson wrote:
> kim@pvv.ntnu.no wrote:
> 
> > All the versions of Linux I have worked with, including Sparc versions,
> > has been much stabler, and frendlier than NetBSD on ARM32.
> 
> Do you say that with any authority? Do you know that an ARM Linux system
> freezes as soon as you run 3 xv's? Or you can't run two telnets, a find
> and an MPEG player at once without it bucketing over? Or some people
> who've tried to run the OS on commercial systems and have ended up
> banging their head against the wall _so_ many times? While it might be
> faster (though these days, not very much) it's certainly not easier to
> install either (OK, NetBSD is hard, but Linux is even harder).

I'd have a hard time believing that as well, since all the problems
I've seen with NetBSD/arm32 have been with the egcs' code generation
causing SEGVs. I don't think Linux would be free of that problem.

The kernel and userland appears to be pretty stable, though slow
(was I wrong in thinking that a 233 MHz SA-110 should be about as
fast as my P166 or faster?).

-- 
Brian Cully						<shmit@rcn.com>
``I'm not surprised,'' said I. ``You created God in your own image,
and when you found out he was no good you abolished him. It's quite a
common form of psychological suicide.''
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