21 May
2001
21 May
'01
12:08 p.m.
jkunz skrev:
Different people, different preferences. (Said the ape and bit into the
soap. ;-) )
Of course, 15 year-old PCs won't fail either. The machines which did fail in
their first fifteen days are long gone, and that goes for all platforms.
Why should IPv6 be mandatory? Isn't that supposed to be backwards-compatible
as far as end clients are concerned, and isn't it my business what I run on my
network?
And why shouldn't one expect NFS support from 2.2BSD?
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
Schont die Sockel, wenn ihr die Denkm?ler st?rzt. Sie k?nnten noch gebraucht
werden.
--- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
On 21 May, Iggy Drougge wrote:
- If you want a modern *ix OS, NetBSD is what you
want. NetBSD is a
nice, pure and small but complete Unix. It is my faforit OS.
Not mine,
but I've
installed it on lots of machines. It's really an odd habit
of mine, I collect the most disparate computers, then make them as similar
as possible running the same OS.
The same for me. It is amusing to se the same OS
on a VAX, or Sun 3 and
on an Alpha or the latest XX GHz hyper wintel crap PC. (And to see how
reliable a 15 years old *ix machine is and how many PeeCees fail in the
first 15 days or even 15 hours of there life.) I'm aware
of the 1.5 bloat problem, and I think it's a serious matter for a
multiplatform OS like NetBSD. The pmax port has been contaminated as well.
This is
the way life goes. NetBSD is a living system. It grows, new
features like IPv6 (that will become mandatory), wscons (that is
reasonible), RAIDframe, Softdeps ... are "bloating" the system. This is
the price, that we have to pay for the improved functionality. I accept
that this may be too much for the oldest machines im my collection. I
don't expect from 2.11BSD on my PDP11 to support NFS, so do I accept
that NetBSD 1.5 is a bit "slow" on a MicroVAX II with 5MB RAM. But the
"bloat" problem is known to the NetBSD folks and a result is the
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