[rescue] Linux

[Jochen Kunz]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:54:26AM -0500, Carl R. Friend wrote:

>    Why in the world do people insist on loading the latest
> version of L*x or *BSD on hardware that has its own perfectly
> good OS? 
Ignorance? (Mostly)
Licencing? (Not with Solaris (?) but certainly with e.g. Tru64.)
For the fun of it?

On the other side: A Sparc with 64 MB RAM can run NetBSD or OpenBSD
quite well. How well does Solaris 9 with that "insufficient" amount
of RAM? 

> It's like folks who want to get *BSD running on PDP-10 iron. WHY?????!
That is somthing different. The idea hehind the PDP-10 port is not 
to have NetBSD on the PDP-10 for use. It is to test NetBSDs 
portability. It is perhaps the same reason why people are 
porting plain UNIX V7 to the 80286. 

>    Two things have come out of Berkeley:  LSD and BSD.  This
> is not conicidence.
;-)
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         Jochen

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