[juneau-lug] Re: NetBSD

  • From: Justin Burket <zorton@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: Juneau Linux Users Group <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:17:07 -0400 (EDT)

> LOL. :) I just thought that it might take more than 3 hours to get OpenBSD
> running on an All-in-one. As far as I know, the general rule of thumb is
> that if a Mac PPC box runs OS X, it will run OpenBSD. And the Darwin folks
> keep pushing the envelope for models that unofficially support OS X.

That's the trouble with me, I've been known to hack away on something
untill the wee hours of the morning.  Complete with calls from my wife's
lawyer and my shrink.

>
> Personally, I have another reason to try NetBSD on the PowerPC boxes. I'm
> kind of disenchanted with OpenBSD lately - the 3.2 i386 SCSI driver has
> trouble if you have an Adaptec controller and a device at ID 0. The CVS
> updates haven't been building ever since I moved to 3.2. And my Alpha is a
> model that might work, or might not work according to the web page.
> (Apparently it does not as the kernel hangs on boot.) So it's been a
> depressing few months as far as my OpenBSD experience goes, and I wouldn't
> recommend 3.2 to anyone just getting into OpenBSD.  They might ask the
> wrong question on misc@ and get chewed up...
>
Does the alpha port support dynamic libraries yet?  That was the thing
that turned me off last time I tried OpenBSD on the alpha no stinking
dynamic libraries!  I felt like I was running windows 3.11 on a pentium
8billion :)

> I've pre-ordered the 3.3 CDs, and I'll see what happens then.  The Adaptec
> thing is a must-fix for me, as I use a lot of SCSI equipment and don't
> necessarily want to just give up on using ID 0.  As long as the i386 port
> works well, I'll be happy.  Everything else is gravy.

SCSI is hte only way to fly for storage.  I hate having to use CPU to push
bits around on the IDE bus on this thing.  Before I left fairbanks I was
used to running two disk intensive processes at once adn still have cpu
left over for koules and X11.  Now that i'm running everything on this
laptop it's amazing what little amount of disk IO can kill the whole CPU.

Oh well.

What of the Debian BSD port? has anyone looked into that?
Justin


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