Here I Am

On January 23, Eric Dittman wrote: Sorta. The FreeBSD evangelists started trying to port to other architectures some time ago. Sun funded their UltraSPARC port if memory serves, because some suit at Sun had heard of FreeBSD but not NetBSD...and NetBSD would have been a MUCH better choice because it was already 64-bit clean, already had lots of relevant device support, the team had relevant architectural experience, etc etc etc...Later, the FreeBSD folks ported their stuff to Alpha. The last time I played with it, about 1.5yrs ago, it was slow and very unstable. I've always drawn the lines like this: NetBSD does things portably, and runs on buttloads of different processor architectures. FreeBSD specializes in PeeCee hardware, and all their effort is [was] focused there, so it's more featureful and has more device support on x86. So the lines are blurring, and for primarily political reasons. We don't even want to TALK about OpenBSD. The whole reason for the very existance of that OS was a petty argument between a bunch of egotists in the NetBSD core group, and OpenBSD was started out of childish spite. Reminds me of clark.net. Pardon me whilst I throw up. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf