On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:25:46PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been using NetBSD for about 3 years, mostly on Sparc. It's > been by primary desktop (sparc 5, 170MHz) for about the last 18 > months and for the most part I'm pretty content with it. By sticking > with lightweight apps (both command-line and GUI) I've found I can > get by just fine with what is obviously pretty slow hardware by > today's standards.
I forgot to give my impressions of NetBSD earlier. I like it. It supports more hardware than OpenBSD. For example, my toshiba IR controller is supported. It's not much more complicated to maintain than OpenBSD, for example, the IR and my pcmcia ethernet card "just worked", and I was able to roll my own install CD, although it wouldn't boot right because the installer takes two floppies or a 2.88MB image, which my laptop won't boot for any OS. I guess I could have booted a floppy and a CD, but that's another issue ;/ It took me a little while to figure out pkgsrc (/usr/pkg, seemingly not much documentation?). Jason, if you like OpenBSD, but want more hardware support for your desktop needs, why not try out NetBSD? Oh, does anyone here run NetBSD-current? -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
