Chock Full o' NetBSD!

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 13, 2003 @09:38PM from the there-are-other-islands-y'know dept.

jschauma writes "While it's no Indigo Espresso or a VAX Bar (though, of course, there is NetBSD/sgimips and NetBSD/vax), at least you can log in on a Mr. Coffee. And while the JavaStation has been running NetBSD for a while, full support is now completely in-tree: NetBSD's Martin Husemann announced today that he has fixed all outstanding issues with JavaStation support. This means, that you can now run your JavaStation with a stock distribution of NetBSD/sparc. The JavaStation-NC is a network computer class machine built on the microSPARC-IIep processor. More information about the JavaStation can be found in the JavaStation HOWTO, Martin's email to the port-sparc mailing list and Valeriy E. Ushakov's paper 'Porting NetBSD to JavaStation-NC.'"

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Re:10 differences off the top of my head... by spektr · 2003-12-13 22:39 · Score: 5, Informative

1. You can not play games on it.

There are games that are explicitly called BSDgames. Wanna play a game of hangman?

3. It lacks a GUI of any note.

Why do you think that XFree86 does not run on netbsd? Hint: it does.

6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.

That's just stupid. Hint: it does. And it runs on your kitchen sink, too.

7. You have to compile everything and know C.

No. Hint: there are binary packages. Lots of it.

9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.

Bullshit. Netbsd has a Linux emulation layer.

10. It is dying.

The troll: It is lying.