[juneau-lug] Re: NetBSD
- From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Juneau Linux Users Group <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:28:37 -0800 (AKDT)
On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Justin Burket wrote:
>
> Ahhh :) but you are assuming I am not the adventours sort. I accually
> have had openbsd running on this laptop in the past. THis was mainly due
> to me not paying attention to the "unsupported" flags and such. Various
> developers have assured me that should I get it booted and should I get
> all the devices working they would be willing to apply a small footnote
> inidicating that openbsd would work on certain old world machines with a
> bit of persictance and a slight knowledge of open firmware.
>
> I shall let you know what happens. I expect it will belike most of my
> grand software quests: working to a point but lacking any real gumption.
>
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.
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...
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.
Jacob, you run FreeBSD quite a bit, don't you? Does FreeBSD have a
PowerPC port yet?
Cheers,
James
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