Speaking of PS/2s...

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Wed Dec 19 08:20:27 2001

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Tothwolf wrote:

> 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.

Yeah. I know. 8-(

> > 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.

But for his system, BSD would be better, since it supports all his
hardware, and it runs faster than Linux on old, slow machines.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Wed Dec 19 2001 - 08:20:27 GMT

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