cctalk digest, Vol 1 #482 - 53 msgs - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Feb 2003

cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote:

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:46:22 -0600
From: Jeffrey Sharp &lt;jss(a)subatomix.com&gt;
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'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.

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