On Tuesday 10 April 2007 01:14, Jim Leonard wrote:
Ensor wrote:
I was more concerned with running it on a
VAX/SGI/Sun/NeXT box
Your only serious consideration is netBSD, as you've found out.
Linux's roots were x86 so it hasn't been ported to nearly as many
platforms.
There's platforms that Linux runs on that NetBSD doesn't, and there's
platforms that NetBSD runs on that Linux doesn't...
For example Linux runs on 64-bit POWER/PPC machines, and (some) ESA/390
architecture machines, which lack a NetBSD port.
I just named those two off the top of my head, because architectures
that I've got, and which I want to be able to run a [free] UNIXy OS on.
Pat
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