[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Mon Feb 17 13:03:32 CST 2014


On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> On 02/17/14 04:12, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>> My problem with Mikrotik gear is RouterOS. I'd much rather have FreeBSD.
>
> I haven't used RouterOS and have no experience on it.  But yeah, this is
> a job for which I *like* OpenBSD.  I was soured on FreeBSD the first
> time I tried to install FreeBSD/Sparc on a U2, with no other machine
> available I could serial-console, asked for help on usable console
> settings for the Sun framebuffer, and was told more or less in so many
> words, "We don't support Sun framebuffers [this on the *Sparc* port,
> remember], and have no intention of ever doing so, so piss off."
>

I only use FreeBSD/SPARC for personal stuff. (i.e: a system I send email 
from using my terminal. It runs an IRC client, twitter client, and email 
client. little more)

When I did routing...I did NetBSD (I was used to the older pf syntax. 
Hadn't learned OpenBSD's new syntax yet)

>> Sent from mobile device that advertises itself for no good reason
>
> <grin>
>

;)

>
>

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