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FreeBSD on New Architectures
Kartoffel writes: "FreeBSD hackers have been hard at work getting the OS to run on PowerPC, IA64, and Sparc64 machines. These announcements are originally from FreeBSD.org. PowerPC: Benno Rice has committed a mega-patch which added support for OpenFirmware to the FreeBSD loader. The loader can now load a kernel over the network and execute it on an Apple iMac. IA64: After a few months of development Doug Rabson and Peter Wemm have committed patches which extends the FreeBSD/ia64 port's functionality and adds the possibility to boot on real hardware. Sparc64: Jake Burkholder and Thomas Moestl have been porting FreeBSD to the ultra sparc for the past few months and first booted a machine into single user mode on the 18th of October. The log from the serial console is available."
... if it's all there in NetBSD?
http://www.netbsd.org/
I submitted an almost identical article like a week ago. Most likely someone lame like cmdrtaco saw it, said "oh this isn't important", and deleted it. Thankfully, micheal found a similar story and posted it.
Note to BSD folks - if you want something posted, submit it multiple times, hours or days apart.
dude, you just got trolled. and, granted, it was by one of the more famous trolls, but don't let that little detail make you feel any better.
ahaha, dumbfuck, why do you fall for this shit?! hahaha, you must be a linux luser.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered /. Troll cummunity when last month Slashdot surveys confirmed that trolling accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all posts. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that /. Trolling has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. /. Trolling is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Slashdot comprehension test.
You don't need to be a fucking idiot to predict /. Troll's future. The handwriting is on the wall: /. Trolls face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for /. Trolls because /. Trolls are dying. Things are looking very bad for /. Trolls. As many of us are already aware, /. Trolls continue to lose post ratings. lost electrons flow like a river of blood. Jon Katz is the most endangered of them all.
All major surveys show that /. Trolling has steadily declined. /. Trolling is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If /. Trolling is to survive at all, it will be among fucking morons. /. Trolls continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point. For all practical purposes, /. Trolling is dead.
Who cares about FreeBSD. I used FreeBSD before I've recently converted to NetBSD 1.52. I just fed up with FreeBSD media hype and had to switch to either Linux and other BSD, NetBSD. I think FreeBSD is worst OS in hardware support! I just didn't fully understand my brand new laptop. USB mouse wouldn't work and recently with FreeBSD 4.4, things even got worse and it wouldn't even auto reboot when I do "shutdown -p now" I bought a brand new kensington USB optical mouse but unable to use since FreeBSD wouldn't recognize USB on my laptop. PS/2 mouse works but, mouse begins to behave caotic after a while in X, expecially under KDE (FreeBSD internal fault! poor design). Many ports don't compile..especially the GNOME stuff.. I don't even know why they even add em in ports when it doesn't even compile. Now I'm using NetBSD 1.52 and thank God! Everything works perfect! NetBSD recognizes every hardware in my laptop and KDE 2.2.1 works great without a glitch. NetBSD seem to compile much faster than in FreeBSD. If you're gonna use BSD, use NetBSD, especially if you want full hardware support. I'll say NetBSD hardware support is equal in par with Linux. Everyone knows Linux has very good hardware support. FreeBSD is just full of media hype and in reality, it's technology is years behind compared to both Linux and NetBSD. I must admit NetBSD is a little hard to use for beginners, but for experienced Linux/BSD users, it's a matter of days before you figure out everything. I just started using NetBSD last week and I'm very comfortable with it. I'll never go back to FreeBSD again. Not even when 5.0 comes out. I'm waiting for NetBSD 1.6 now. I just wish NetBSD had better document support and better package manager support. Trying to install any precompiled packages say, KDE 2.2 via ftp is simply terrible, doesn't work! I've installed KDE 2.2.1 but I had to grab the source and compile it. Took good 15 hours!!!
Unproud former FreeBSD user and
Now very PROUD NetBSD 1.52 user.