On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:34:31PM -0700, larry a price wrote: > So in preparation for taking on a new OS (netbsd)
> I've been reading > the docs and trying to make sure I have answered most of my questions > about hw, things like PCMCIA support, and sound etc. > > 2 things: > Thing the first: Is there a web accessible list of all the packages > available for netbsd? I'm groping around in the FTP site without a roadmap > and that's led me to > /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc > where there exist no README.html as promised in the website :P /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/README-all.html.new > > The other: > What are the main gotchas of switching from linux to bsd? > What habits are going to get me in trouble? > Cultural and technical differences not emphasised in the documentation? You'll be using the BSD toolset, not the GNU toolset, so basic tools will possibly have slightly different options or behave a bit different. You'll probably want to read a 'disklabel' manpage. Binary emulation is pretty cool too. NetBSD has a new rc.d thing going on (interested to see what you have to say about it). As far as cultural differences, I can't really speak for NetBSD, but I find this bit about OpenBSD pretty accurate: http://www.holland-consulting.net/tech/ocep/index.html#unfriendly I think NetBSD is more of a hardware hacking crowd though. I read somewhere that BSD is as popular as Linux in Japan (although what that has to do with this email, I don't know :). > larry, > (who's maybe wondering if he really is tired of having most things 'just > work') > > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus > http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes > http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) > http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking > -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
