On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:54:05 +0100 Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> wrote: > On Thursday 05 Sep 2002 10:29 am, Chris J wrote: > > It's a couple of days old (at least), but it seems Linux on X-Box is > > slowly but surely getting there. Though I suspect there's a way to > > go before Linux rivals NetBSD for supported platforms ;) > > To be fair to Linux, the NetBSD definition of "supported" is somewhat > weak, e.g. I had no luck with the PA-RISC port at all, and you get > "ports" like: amiga, mac68k, hp300, luna68k, mvme68k, news68k, > next68k, x68k, sun3, atari that are all Motorola based and most have > some degree of support in Linux/m68k (mainly the Japanese custom stuff > like x68k and luna68k is unsupported). Not wishing to slate Linux or start a BSD vs Linux war but one of the fundamental aims of NetBSD is to be easily portable, with stuff like platform/bus independent drivers.. Linux is much more of a mish-mash as it is fundamentally a PC OS ported to however many platforms. http://www.netbsd.org/Goals/portability.html I run NetBSD on my old sparc as it works much nicer than Linux (without the resource overheads that come with every Linux distro). --Andrew -- sparc sun4c stuff: http://www.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk/sparc PGP key for list [at] lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk: http://www.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk\ /list.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk.asc
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