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Raq'ing up NetBSD

Posted by Nik on 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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  1. Re:I still don't understand this by Trick · · Score: 2

    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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  2. Re:I still don't understand this by Trick · · Score: 3

    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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  3. Re:I still don't understand this by dlc · · Score: 3

    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


    Cthulhu for President!
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    (darren)