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Raq'ing up NetBSD 8

Posted by Nik from the NP:-the-eve-of-the-way dept.
Got a Cobalt Raq 2, but want to keep your BSD fetish going? If so, Soren Jorvang's announcement of a prelimenary port to this particular piece of blue iron should be right up your street.
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  • What about "Beceause I can". NetBSD developers put a lot of effort into abstracting the hardware as much as possible. New developments in core code are quickly incorporated into all ports eg UVM.
    As a consequence the effort required to adopt a new platform is a lot less.
    How many people today can say that "I ported UNIX to a new hardware platform" With NetBSD you can.
    There are several ports brought up from nothing to booting into single or multiuser by 1 or 2 people before anyone else gets involved.
  • Well, suppose the box was originally bought as an easy all-in-one server, as a lot of Cobalts are... Then somewhere down the road, the company hires someone with a bit more of a clue who doesn't need or want the GUI. How can having a choice between the stock OS and BSD be a bad thing then?

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  • Re:I still don't understand this (Score:3)

    by Trick ( 3648 ) on Monday March 20, 2000 @11:05AM (#1189178)

    While there may be a few semi-ridiculous ports flying around, what I can't understand is how someone could get bent out of shape about someone porting BSD to a server platform. It makes all the sense in the world, and I could give you 1,000,000 reasons why someone might want to run BSD on a server.

    Relax a little. This one makes sense.

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  • I think the best reason is for consistency. One of the things I like about Linux and the BSD's is that they run on a lot of hardware. If I get a PowerPC for my desk, and I happen to not like the MacOS (!!!), then I like the fact that there are other options (quite a few in this case). Running NetBSD, or Linux, or whatever on my Intel box, my Sparc, and my PPC means consistency from box to box. Yeah, the binaries are not compatible, but the source is -- I can actually utilize the PPC hardware to its fullest potential if I put NetBSD on it rather than the MacOS.

    darren


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