26 Feb
2003
26 Feb
'03
4:31 a.m.
cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote:
Message: 1
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:46:22 -0600
From: Jeffrey Sharp <jss(a)subatomix.com>
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: OT: FreeBSD (was: "Real Computers")
Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Well, here's my OT post for the month.
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, Philip Pemberton wrote:
I'd recommend going with 4.7 rather than 5.0 since the 5.0 is pretty
much the developer relese for the folks working on the non-stable
version...
Anyone who gets the Simh VAX emulator to use ethernet on FreeBSD will
have my undying gratitude.
There's going to be a 4.8 soon (my box auto-builds weekly from the
4.x-STABLE tree and now is calling itself 4.8-PRERELEASE.)
Bill
I'll try FreeBSD when I've got a spare few
hours to download the ISO
image.
You might find it easier to install by FTP. It's simple: download two floppy
disk images, dd 'em to some 3.5s, and reboot. Then install as normal, except
choose FTP as the install media. It isn't lightning-fast, but you also only
download the data that you need instead of an entire ISO.
ObClassicCmp: FreeBSD makes a great OS for running classic computing tools
like SIMH.
Slackware is quite stable, probably because
Slackware have a "We're not
going to hack the Kernel, nor are we going to use any fancy packaging
systems or init scripts".
I've heard many people say that Slackware is the most BSD-like of the
Linuces. Of course, that was on Slashdot, so it must be true.