On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Doc Shipley wrote:
>
> > Oh, yeah. It had the original reference disk in the floppy drive. I
> > think that's really why I bought it.
>
> You might not want to use the original reference disk, as it probably has
> been updated since then, and the update will be on the FTP site
> (ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/refdisks/).
Sadly, in the last few years IBM has started to make a total mess of their
ftp site. It's starting to make me miss the old BBS.
> As far as an OS, Linux and NetBSD will both work. Linux is a bit more
> stable, but NetBSD is the better OS, and the stability will be perfect by
> next release, and that should be soon.
>From personal experience, which os is best can only be determined from the
particular task you want the machine to perform. I've found Linux to be
better suited for my desktop machines, since Linux seems to support the
really odd and the bleeding edge hardware before BSD gets the same
support. I have nothing against BSD, and often find BSD to be better
suited for long running, extremely stable systems where hardware things
don't need to change much.
-Toth
Received on Wed Dec 19 2001 - 07:41:56 GMT