NetBSD

[Barnaby W. Füi]

havent seen much talk about NetBSD here, i think i'm gonna install it on my 386. it has 2 MB of ram which cannot be upgraded, and according to netBSD's site it should be enough. not totally sure what i plan on doing with this machine, if anything (except learn), and i dont have any -specific- questions or problems or anything, just wanted to see if any of you guys have used NetBSD and what your thoughts on it are.

 

[SinNisTeR]

2mb? wow, this isnt going to be pretty

free bump for ya

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< 2mb? wow, this isnt going to be pretty >>


i'll be fine, its the 386 that's gonna take a beating (106MB hard drive :Q)

 

[nuttervm]

n0cmonkey probably has used it before. theo deraadt, the guy in charge of openbsd used to work for this distro, its where openbsd kinda got its start. its supposed to be an ultra-portable bsd system, but i couldnt give a damn about that personally. i think support for x86, ppc, alpha and sparc are about all you need to care about, but netbsd supports everything under the sun which is a waste of time imho.

if you want a server using bsd, use freebsd for ease of use or openbsd for hardcore geek/security. i think openbsd and especially freebsd have a larger and more active user base. the three distros use pretty much the same software at the lowest levels, so i'd reccomend you go with freebsd. in all reality, its not all that different from linux or any other unix when you get down to day to day usage.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< n0cmonkey probably has used it before. theo deraadt, the guy in charge of openbsd used to work for this distro, its where openbsd kinda got its start. its supposed to be an ultra-portable bsd system, but i couldnt give a damn about that personally. i think support for x86, ppc, alpha and sparc are about all you need to care about, but netbsd supports everything under the sun which is a waste of time imho.

if you want a server using bsd, use freebsd for ease of use or openbsd for hardcore geek/security. i think openbsd and especially freebsd have a larger and more active user base. the three distros use pretty much the same software at the lowest levels, so i'd reccomend you go with freebsd. in all reality, its not all that different from linux or any other unix when you get down to day to day usage. >>



Ive never touched NetBSD, but I do respect their portability. Its a waste of time to me too, but they seem to think its fun so more power to them

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

got netBSD installed on the hard drive, but it wouldnt boot on the 386. and although in their section where they talk about architectures, they mention it runs on a 486/2MB ram, in their install docs they say it needs 4MB :|

qnx didnt like the 386 either. i'm thinking i may have to install dos on the thing and find a dos ssh client, at least then i can irc on the thing