On 21 May, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>> - If you want a modern *ix OS, NetBSD is what you want. NetBSD is a
>> nice, pure and small but complete Unix. It is my faforit OS.
> Not mine,
Different people, different preferences. (Said the ape and bit into the
soap. ;-) )
> but I've installed it on lots of machines. It's really an odd habit
> of mine, I collect the most disparate computers, then make them as similar as
> possible running the same OS.
The same for me. It is amusing to se the same OS on a VAX, or Sun 3 and
on an Alpha or the latest XX GHz hyper wintel crap PC. (And to see how
reliable a 15 years old *ix machine is and how many PeeCees fail in the
first 15 days or even 15 hours of there life.)
[HP-UX <=> NetBSD]
> I suppose that its hardware support is better than NetBSD.
Of course.
> I supposed that NetBSD would be almost identical with (to?) 4.4BSD.
More or less. From the users point of view the systems are very
similar. But especially inside the Kernel there are a lot of changes.
> I'm aware of the 1.5 bloat problem, and I think it's a serious matter for a
> multiplatform OS like NetBSD. The pmax port has been contaminated as well.
This is the way life goes. NetBSD is a living system. It grows, new
features like IPv6 (that will become mandatory), wscons (that is
reasonible), RAIDframe, Softdeps ... are "bloating" the system. This is
the price, that we have to pay for the improved functionality. I accept
that this may be too much for the oldest machines im my collection. I
don't expect from 2.11BSD on my PDP11 to support NFS, so do I accept
that NetBSD 1.5 is a bit "slow" on a MicroVAX II with 5MB RAM. But the
"bloat" problem is known to the NetBSD folks and a result is the
tech-perform mailing list...
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tsch??,
Jochen
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Received on Mon May 21 2001 - 14:51:06 BST