On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote: > On Friday 06 January 2006 07:44, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> With the gentoo installation, I think we have "enough" linux for >> the moment. Somebody noticed that the Waterfall view of buildbot >> quickly becomes unreadable if there are too many builds. > > My only concern is that it's gentoo, not just linux. I know that for a > couple of my other open source projects I usually don't spend too > long debugging bizarrely broken apparent bugs, because it ends up > being some strange build flag or some such on the gentoo box in > question. On the other hand, this box is unlikely to have been built > with a selection of gcc flags that Neal just selected randomly from > the gcc manual <wink> so it's probably going to be better than that. > >>> Heck, there's a pile of 500MHz P3s sitting here that I could drop >>> a random free unix onto if someone wants to nominate something >>> that's >>> >>> a) useful >>> b) not a total pain in the clacker to install. >> >> For a), I think one of the BSDs might be useful. Whether they >> qualify for b), I don't know. > > Anyone else have an opinion on the ease of installation for the > various BSDs? Last time I tried one (which was several years ago) it > was Not Very Good.
FreeBSD and OpenBSD are painless these days, assuming that you're comfortable reading text during installation. No experience with NetBSD. -bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
